You may be thinking, why start a series on knowing God through suffering with the most abstract and difficult doctrine known to Christians? Why not start with something simpler, like mercy or faithfulness? All in due time. I start with the Trinity because who God is...
If God has ordained my suffering, what can I do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Well, nothing about my circumstances, but I can do something about my heart. I only have three choices. First, I can cry out to God like the psalmists and cling to what I know to...
“So, this is it. This is how I’m going to die,” I thought as I kneeled over the toilet in my underwear, waves of pain slamming my stomach. For the sixth time in two weeks I was experiencing unbearable pain, caused by the lemon-size tumor in my small bowel. What I...
[This is the third of a four-part series on doing justice and how it relates to the gospel. See the first and second parts here and here.] Principles for doing justice and the gospel: Hermeneutically, we must make distinctions between the combined political/religious...
[This is the second of a four-part series on doing justice and how it relates to the gospel. See the first part here .] The laws that God lays down in Leviticus contribute to the overall picture of justice in the Bible. Let’s take a look at one passage that is rich in...