Results tagged “sovereignty”
Glorifying God in Trials (04/30/09 - 18 Comments)
Today's post comes courtesy of my good friend Ryan who offers some reflections on glorifying God through life's trials. He wrote this article yesterday. ***** I am writing this from the waiting area at the Trillium Hospital in Toronto, while my beautiful wife is undergoing a procedure to help bring closure to the miscarriage we first learned about last week. While this isn't our first miscarriage, it is the first since the healthy births of...
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...
Blessings, Kingdoms, Smiles and Books (10/12/07 - 13 Comments)
This is a compilation of various things that caught my eye this week. They were things that needed more explanation than I could offer in A La Carte, but not enough that they merited an article of their own. Same Sex Blessings It's easy to write off the Anglican Church, and especially so up here in Canada where it seems that so few churches have really remained faithful to the gospel. So many churches, or...
Polishing God's Monuments (08/20/07 - 7 Comments)
Delighting in God's sovereignty, even through affliction. I typically post a new book review here every Tuesday morning. But because I was so excited by the book I planned on reviewing this week, I thought I would break with tradition and post this review a day early. Polishing God's Monuments was an unexpected surprise. A book that arrived (as do so many others) without any fanfare, I quickly skimmed the four endorsements and paused only...
Quote: Our Pat Little Paradigms (08/14/07 - 5 Comments)
Excerpted from Jim Andrew's Polishing God's Monuments. When the Lord's ways do not neatly conform to our pat little paradigms of what seems (to our fallible minds) right and just, and good and faithful, it says something about human nature that usually the first thought that comes to mind is that something is wrong with God. Somehow the last thing that occurs to us is that God is simply too big for our small boxes....