Lonely in a Crowd
The weight of loneliness hit me really hard a few weeks ago. I couldn’t explain why. I live on the same property as my family and see them daily. Our small, flourishing church plant provides plenty of weekly fellowship and…
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The Single’s Gift
Your training program is now in place. You have identified places in your life that need special focus in pursuing godliness and purity. At least one coach motivates you to keep at it. You even have an accountability partner, running…
How to Teach the Doctrine of the Blessedness of God [Part 4]
Divine blessedness is fruitful. Of course the divine blessedness itself, the beatitude of God, is fruitful, as the source of everything that has come into being. But my point here, as in the earlier articles in this series, is that…
How to Teach the Doctrine of the Blessedness of God [Part 4]
Divine blessedness is fruitful. Of course the divine blessedness itself, the beatitude of God, is fruitful, as the source of everything that has come into being. But my point here, as in the earlier articles in this series, is that…
Modern Opposition to Divine Blessedness [Part 3]
The doctrine of divine impassibility has been much discussed, and it deserves to be: it is crucial for the Christian church to be able to confess the right thing about the omnipotent God precisely at this point, at the foot…
Divine Blessedness in Non-Christian Theologies [Part 2]
Blessedness and Hellenization Christians ascribe blessedness to our God, but we were not the first to call a God blessed. Other worshippers in other religions, and other thinkers in other theological systems, have also considered beatitude to be an attribute…
Divine Blessedness in Non-Christian Theologies [Part 2]
Blessedness and Hellenization Christians ascribe blessedness to our God, but we were not the first to call a God blessed. Other worshippers in other religions, and other thinkers in other theological systems, have also considered beatitude to be an attribute…
The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
In 1 Timothy 1:11, Paul says that he has been entrusted with “the gospel of the glory of the blessed God.” It is a weighty phrase in every way, but Paul’s use of the word “blessed” is especially striking. In…
The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
In 1 Timothy 1:11, Paul says that he has been entrusted with “the gospel of the glory of the blessed God.” It is a weighty phrase in every way, but Paul’s use of the word “blessed” is especially striking. In…