Book Review: The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton, G. K. The Everlasting Man. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2011. This is a witty apologetic that advocates original monotheism, as opposed to an evolutionary account …
Chesterton, G. K. The Everlasting Man. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2011. This is a witty apologetic that advocates original monotheism, as opposed to an evolutionary account …
The bottom line is this: the greatest consideration when selecting our clothes should not be our particular fashion taste, but the God who redeemed our bodies with the ransom price of Jesus’s blood. He now gets to say what we communicate with our clothes.
In a previous post, I suggested that our natural tendency is to put other people somewhere along an imaginary line, stretched between the two poles …
I was just reading Joshua 2 this morning and it set me to thinking about women who have, for whatever reason, made really poor life …
The people whose examples stir me most are dead now—at least their bodies don’t live on the earth anymore. But I can still take walks with them by reading their biographies. Here are snippets from the writings of several men whose examples never fail to stir me, correct me, and excite my hunger for God.
God never promises that these tasks will yield immediate fruit, that parenting will get easier, or my life more comfortable. God loves me too much to give me the luxury of walking by sight. So, if you’re like me and are looking for a little Bible encouragement and resolution in your parenting, let this conviction settle down deep: your children are a grace; they’re an enduring legacy, a strong security, and a powerful weapon of warfare in God’s Kingdom.
If a recently married man told me, “Give me a few good reasons why I should move in with my wife,” I supposed I would …
If you look up the yearly synagogue reading schedule, you will discover that Isaiah 53 is never read. Ever. Not in the weekly Sabbath readings. Not on any special holy day. Now you might think, “Well, there are probably a good many other passages that are omitted as well.” And you’re right; there are many other passages that are omitted. But this omission is a particularly curious one.
Eight months ago, I went from having slightly concerning pains to needing emergency surgery. Eight months ago, I found out I would not meet our …
A big God makes sin a cross-sized problem. But no problem is too big for God’s all-abounding, all-cleansing, magnificent grace. I hope this week you’ll see past the cruel Romans, beyond the petty Pharisees, and through the fearful disciples to eternity’s finest display of love and grace: “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”