Is God’s Love Like a Hurricane?
The first line of John Mark McMillan’s song “How He Loves” compares God’s love to “a hurricane” and the believer as “bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.” But hurricanes are overpowering...
View ArticleA Brief Theology of Human Death
The Bible portrays death as the consequence of human sin. Death was the sanction that God tied to the Garden of Eden stipulation: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the...
View ArticleGod Is Enough: A Theology of the Book of Job
The book of Job has rightly earned a place among the great works of classical literature. For over two millennia its dramatic language, powerful metaphors, elegant poetry, lofty ethics, and profound...
View ArticleThe Gospel According to Gethsemane
I am convinced that apart from the cross of Calvary we have no more powerful and vivid a portrayal of gospel truth than what we find in the cup of Gethsemane. If you and I were standing by Jesus’ side...
View ArticleYou Are Not Alone: The Spirit’s Intercession
To encourage suffering Christians in Rome the apostle Paul assures them that the Triune God is “for us” and, as a result, nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ” (Rom...
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