The Deliverance of the Broken (Psalm 18)
Jehovah is my dearest love and my confidence, so I am perfectly safe I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my…
How Jesus Builds His Church (1 Peter 2:4-10)
1) Jesus builds his church by joining his people to himself in a direct, exclusive union which transforms them into individual expressions of his infinite nature and arranges them into…
Unconquerable Joy (Psalm 16)
Christological psalms are a beautiful thing; for they pull back the curtains and let us gaze upon one of the greatest mysteries in the world universe: the real humanity of…
The Blessed Paradox of Faith (Psalm 73)
At the heart of the spiritual life of mortals this side of the river is the terrifying paradox that true spiritual power exists within the context of horrifying fleshly corruption.…
Christ-centered Christianity (Col 2:6-3:17)
The theological basis for Christ's centrality The main idea- Jesus Christ himself is the source and substance of everything in our Christian walk; we receive everything we need for our…
Within the Veil (Hebrews 10:19-25)
The Tabernacle in the wilderness had a simple beauty. While it was carefully and elegantly made, it lacked the grandiosity and ostentation of typical religious constructs. But this simple tent…
Living as the betrothed of Christ (John 14-17)
Believers, as the bride of Christ, exist in this world in a state of constant, expectant tension. They are united to Christ in spirit , yet live in this world…
Fear not, Jehovah knows your name (Isaiah 41:8-16; 43:1-7; 44:1-8)
When Jehovah speaks to his captive people, he confronts them with a threefold declaration of their paradoxical nature: the depth of their human depravity and the height of their divine…
God in the Dark- Isaiah 40:12-31
The infinite, transcendent Jehovah has perfect understanding of every aspect of the created universe in its incalculable scale and infinitesimal detail; therefore, he and he alone can do what he…
A Causal Formula of Human Will
Introduction Philosophy and science have different methods and different goals, but are symbiotic by nature. Philosophy seeks to speculates on what is possible by a deductive process, but it…
