A good test of every ideology is whether it exalts God and humbles man, or whether it exalts man and dethrones God. – John Stott
Life’s Problems and Knowing God
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord. … James I. Packer (b. 1926), Knowing God, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973, p. 34
Scribes vs. Prophets
Hearts that are “fit to break” with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They…
Thanksgiving Proclamation
“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God. To confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon. And to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures–and proven…
Scripture as a Starting Point
Our starting point is Scripture, which we accept as God’s unique and trustworthy revelation. Yet, in seeking with loyalty to conserve this truth from God, we attribute no infallibility to our own evangelical traditions. We desire, rather, to re-examine them radically — that is to say, with a thoroughness which digs down even to their roots. If…
Choices
“Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And, taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into…
Getting Personal?
“Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church’s ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them. All too often, evangelicals are paper people. If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian…
Solitude
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. “The thoughtful soul to solitude retires,” said the poet of…
Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save what Thou art: Thou my best thought, by day or by night; Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my Wisdom and Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my…
The Unbridgeable Gulf
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank…
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