Extravagant and Extraordinary Grace
Two recent books on the subject of grace complement each other wonderfully and deserve a consideration for your next read. Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness by Barbara Duguid (P&R, 2013) is a distillation of wisdom on suffering drawn from...The People Who Know Their God
Forty years ago J. I. Packer published his well-known book on the person of God, Knowing God. Recently, I have been listening to the audiobook version and I am reminded again why this is considered a classic. Packer gets right to the heart of the issue for many...Why Such Evil in Our World? We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
It is not possible to build a culture around a denial of God-given standards, and then arbitrarily reintroduce those standards at your convenience, whenever you need a word like evil to describe what has just happened. Those words cannot just be whistled up. If we...