Lately, I can’t stop thinking about Jesus asleep in the boat. The storm is surging; the vessel is filling with water; the disciples are scurrying.
This is a historic scene,
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Default Paradise
W.H. Auden says, “All the judgments, aesthetic or moral, that we pass, however objective we try to make them, are in part a rationalization and in part a corrective discipline of our subjective wishes.” It is therefore incumbent on critics,
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Learning to Leave the Growth to God
Speaking metaphorically, the apostle Paul describes our ministry efforts in terms of planting and watering seed (I Corinthians 3:6-9). In the recent past, we’ve focused a great deal of those efforts on the presentation of our planting and watering to the exclusion of depth.
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Pascal’s 3 Dimensions of Reality
A Cryptic Thought
According to Peter Kreeft, God in his mercy struck Blaise Pascal down at a young age before he could turn his “pensees” into a dry academic tome.
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Migraines, Chronic Pain, and the Cross
The “With-ness” of God in the Midst of Pain
It overtakes my entire body. The discomfort typically begins with my neck and quickly creeps up the back of my head.
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Community and the Creative Spirit
Nietzsche With the Voice of an Angel
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s seminal essay, “Self Reliance,” remains the great paean to American individualism. As with all the man’s writings, it’s equal parts quotable and intoxicating,
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The Practical Root of Unbelief
Casual Atheism
Christian men and women ought to be highly skeptical of the word practical as it’s often used in everyday conversations. When we scrutinize its usage, we discover that it frequently serves as a kind of shorthand for one of the most basic but profound forms of idolatry—namely,
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Elisha and Jesus: A Window Into God’s Heart
An Overlooked Hero
We all have our superheroes that shape us, whether real or imaginary. Even as adults, we look to figures holding larger-than-life personas, generally on the sports field,
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What Are We to Make of the Revival at Asbury?
A Note of Hesitancy
As of this writing, the events unfolding in the auditorium of Asbury’s chapel are getting more and more difficult to explain away. What began as a routine chapel service on Wednesday,
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A Brief Introduction to Fasting
Fasting is a spiritual discipline that was practiced by Jesus and early Christians and that today is practiced in many places around the world today where the Gospel is growing most rapidly.
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