Eyeglass lenses serve the purpose of bending (refracting) light in such a way as to make things more clearly perceptible to us. Without going into more detail than would be interesting, I will tell you that there are different kinds of eyeglass lenses, but they can be broken down into two categories (if we’re talking in the plainest terms). (more…)
Darryl at DashHouse.com summarizes one of Tim Keller’s talks at the 2007 EMA conference. This point stood out:
It is necessary to draw boundaries. What really matters is how we treat the people on the other side of those boundaries. People are watching. We’re going to win the younger leaders if we are the most gracious, kind, and the least self-righteous in controversy. The truth will ultimately lose if we hold the right doctrines, but do so with nasty attitudes and a lack of love.
Read Darryl’s entire summary here. It is a worthy investment of time to read it. (more…)
Jesus said, “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me…If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.”
If the point of the Scriptures is to reveal Christ (as Jesus seems to be saying in the above quote from the Gospel of John), should we be astonished when someone finds him there? (more…)
Why would (and how could) God, who by his nature defies reduction, reveal himself in a book easily reduced to a systematic understanding? Are we surprised to find that God, who has revealed himself in many ways within creation, has in the Scripture shown himself in many ways? God is not a math problem to be solved, but a person to be known. It is he, namely Christ, who is revealed from beginning to end of the Scripture, just as in creation.
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