obedience

Grace for Service

Mark Johnston
Apr 24, 2020
The more we have explored the theme of grace as it unfolds in different ways throughout Scripture, the more we have discovered its variegated beauty and its far-reaching implications for our lives as Christians. It is more pervasive than we often imagine and, as we have noted in an earlier post,...

Listening to His Law

Bret Saunders
Oct 17, 2019
Editor's Note: This is the final post in this series. Part 1 [ available here ] introduced the connection between a biblical understanding of education and that of fatherhood. Part 2 [ available here ] explored the storytelling aspect of education. Now the author turns to the second aspect, Law,...

A Historic Framework for Social Responsibility

Jay Harvey
Aug 10, 2017
How shall the church think about social issues of race, justice and power? It is increasingly popular for these issues to be framed and discussed in the church using the categories of social justice and racial privilege as defined by the social sciences. In secular academic settings such categories...

Cruciform Suffering

Daniel Timmer
May 30, 2017
The fact that the incarnate Son of God "learned obedience" (Heb. 5:8) is an essential aspect of Jesus' human nature and so is indispensable to sound Christology and soteriology. Apart from the cross itself, the clearest example we have of this "learning" is probably found in the Synoptic accounts...