Results tagged “grace”
The Quiet Time Performance (04/20/09 - 28 Comments)
Like all Christians, I love my quiet time. I am always thrilled at the prospect of sitting down for a few quiet moments before a busy day to spend some time alone with God--a few moments one-on-one with my Creator. I love to open the Bible and to carefully and systematically read the Word of God, allowing it to penetrate my heart. I love to sit and think deeply and meditatively about the Scriptures and...
Freedom in Christ (01/21/09 - 26 Comments)
(Continued from yesterday) My friend and I had taken hours out of our weekend to clean Barb's squalid, rundown house. But then, when she got home, she was angry--very angry. Now there was one thing I neglected to say about Barb. Beside her couch/bed was one of those Rubbermaid containers, the kind with several drawers. Each of these drawers contained an assortment of silk Hermes scarves. Each of these scarves, we later learned, had been...
Amazing Grace or Random Grace? (10/20/08 - 18 Comments)
It was quite a while ago that I received an email from a father, concerned about the task of sharing the gospel with his children. While I answered the email then, I also filed it away for further thought. Today I want to answer it in a little bit more detail. Here is what this reader wrote to me: I have such a hard time grasping this notion of election as a father. God made...
Living on Borrowed Grace (09/24/08 - 15 Comments)
I woke up early this morning, a long time before my alarm was set to start buzzing. I woke up with a phrase bouncing through my mind--a phrase I've been thinking about for a long time. Some time ago I was thinking about children who have the privilege of growing up in Christian homes but was drawn to the many I know who have fallen away from the faith. Despite the great honor given them...
Escaping Justice (01/02/08 - 9 Comments)
The longer I live and the longer I walk through this Christian life, the more I come to understand what a gift it is to see the world through a Christian lens—through a Christian worldview. A worldview is simply the way we look at the world and the way we understand how life works. The predominant worldview in our day and our society is foundationally Darwinian. Built around an evolutionary framework, it teaches that we...
Offering Grace (12/16/07 - 10 Comments)
A couple of days ago I posted a short reflection on grace and how foreign a concept this is to sinful humans. I wrote about my son and how, at a time he had received a gift he valued a great deal, he attempted to repay this gift with all the money he had (which was, it turns out, only one dollar). His offer was a kind one and even a generous one, but one...
Delighting in Delight (12/14/07 - 13 Comments)
Every year, in the weeks before Christmas, we have my son and daughter compile a list of the gifts they most desired. Topping my son’s list a couple of years ago was a Playmobil castle—a huge, grey castle that looks like the kind of toy every boy dreams about. He asked for this with some hesitation, though, because he knew that it was expensive. We told him several times leading up to Christmas that we...