The Heart Convictions of Those Who Seek After God (Psalm 63)
God is my personal possession, and should thus be personally known and experienced. I will never be satisfied with a distant, academic knowledge about God; nor deign to sell my…
Observations of God, his word, and his church
God is my personal possession, and should thus be personally known and experienced. I will never be satisfied with a distant, academic knowledge about God; nor deign to sell my…
Author’s note- I wrote this essay to describe the life of a young woman, as I saw it. As I thought on the beauty of her life and undertook the…
Many settle for a stunted Christ: one who can be reasonably understood by a set of doctrines, comfortably followed by a set of outward and visible regulations, and moderately experienced…
Here I sit, partaking in sweet communion with by kinsman-redeemer around the table he has set for his church, his bride. And as I sit here, thinking of this blessed…
I was deep in contemplation as I considered the amazing truth of vicarious atonement: that Christ took the cup of the fury of the Most High, which I had…
Behold the conqueror crossing the Jabbok. He is alone: no retinue, no court, no fighting men to give him aid. He has not the proud gait of the mighty, but…
Man's conception of sanctification is often limited to a slightly spiritualized version of mere human maturity: develop good habits, increase your abilities and skills, and achieve a measure of predictable…
God's ways are ways of holiness that weave invisible paths through impassible obstacles. He does not merely sanction one of the many earthly, well-worn paths before us, he creates his…
We are a thirsty people, full of deep soul-needs that must be met; and we all have a destructive tendency to frantically run to the poisoned waters of the world…
Law-based sanctification chains us to the limitations inherent in humanity. We meditate on the limited precepts of men, progress incrementally in humanly attainable steps, and eventually achieve sufficiency by conforming…