Do you ever find yourself reading the Bible with something less than enthusiastic belief when it comes to stories about talking donkeys, floating axe heads, and rising corpses? Welcome to the club. We don't see that kind of stuff every day, or any day for that matter, so it can feel unreasonable even when we want to believe. Whey doesn't…...
Read MoreIt's stuck with me all these years later. The well-known theologian began his talk with the words, "I've written more about the Greek word for head than any other scholar." The talk was about biblical complementarianism and the speaker was none other than Wayne Grudem. He went on to say, "Yet it took me a lifetime to understand the head…...
Read More"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And àll tràdes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle,…...
Read MoreI've never used the Bible to learn how to change the oil in my car, build a bookshelf, or fix my lawnmower. In those cases, YouTube turns out to be a far more helpful guide than God's Word. That's not the case when it comes to issues of the soul. I've been thinking about this topic recently as I consider…...
Read MoreYou've seen the style. Some of you love it. Some of you hate it. It's the notorious man bun, donned by men in various cultures throughout time. But did you know Jesus had a man bun? In Ireland he did. When missionaries — following in the footsteps of Saint Patrick — preached the Good News in Ireland, they would use…...
Read MoreLast week I stood beneath C.S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College in Oxford and shared the story of his journey from atheism to belief in God. To my left (in the picture) is a nature trail called Addison's Walk where Lewis famously walked and talked with J.R.R. Tolkien and talked about how Christianity is the one true myth that gives…...
Read MoreIn the middle of WW II, C.S. Lewis gave a couple sermons at St Mary the Virgin University Church in England that have influenced a generation of Christian thinkers. The talks were "Learning in War Time" and "The Weight of Glory." Last week I gave a short talk on Lewis's sermon "The Weight of Glory." My friend Dr. Ryan Griffith (pictured…...
Read More"Well, at any rate, we now have less chance of dying of cancer," quipped C. S. Lewis in response to learning of Hitler's invasion of Poland, knowing that his own country was on the brink of joining the war. As a World War I veteran, he knew the ugliness of combat. And for a man seldom without a pipe or…...
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