Christians are known for being people of the cross—people who rightly focus a great deal of attention on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. But while the cross stands at the very center of the gospel, it does not stand alone. Rather, it is surrounded, as it were, by the wider context of Jesus’s humiliation and exaltation—by all he did before and after he was crucified. The humiliation and exaltation of Jesus Christ are the twin subjects of Jonty …
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May the Lord be with you and bless you today. On sale at Westminster Books this week is an excellent new daily devotional from Alistair Begg. Brothers Indeed I very much enjoyed this dispatch from afar. The Middle Years Melissa often makes me laugh. “The middle years, where any guess about my age is likely to be wrong one way or the other, depending on ridiculous things like how much water I’ve been drinking or how much I spent on …
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Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, and I’m thinking about my grandmother’s brother who died during the Second World War as a fighter pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force. (Yesterday on the blog: Life Is Fleeting) What is conscience and why does it matter? Stephen Kneale says, “I think many of us have a particularly poor understanding of just what conscience is.” He moves conscience from the realm of feeling to the realm of knowledge. An Outline for Understanding …
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Good morning. May the Lord bless you and keep you today. Westminster Books has a deal on a pair of new books meant to help fight addiction to pornography (and to help those who are so struggling). Are Baptists ‘Reformed’? A Brief History of Baptist Identity I enjoyed Timothy George’s look at the historical connection between Baptists and Reformed theology. How Church Membership Gives Us Freedom “Isn’t it ironic that a high commitment like church membership can bring about a …
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I draw a deep breath and put pen to paper. But the words won’t flow. Not yet. I pause for a moment to gather my thoughts. I know I need to prepare an expression of sympathy, to write out a letter of condolence to a friend who has suffered a tragic loss. I want him to know my love, my support, my comfort in this, his hardest hour. I picture the one who lived and then died, who flourished for …
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