Archive for September, 2007

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Community

“You are the Light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:14)
These words of Jesus describe the special place that Christ’s true followers have on the earth. It is not just that we as individuals are meant to model virtue for others. The redeemed community, [...]

30Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Political Ideas

There are many ideas that keep the mind from knowing God, but probably the deepest and most difficult ideas are political ideas. This is for several reasons. First, these ideas are often shared by everybody and so we never hear them challenged. This is true in our culture when the [...]

30Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Power

18Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Sciences

At this point in history we are all aware of the wonderful things that have come to us through the natural sciences: physics, chemistry, and biology in particular. But there is more to science than merely descriptions of natural phenomena; there are sciences which deal with nonphysical and human reality. We want to think carefully [...]

16Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Worship

The central human capacity is worship. This is one of the main things that we are designed to do, and for this reason it is important to understand what worship is and how to do it well.
Worship is twofold. On the one hand it involves ordering one’s entire life around something [...]

8Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Theistic Evolution

Many people think that the only two alternatives for understanding the beginning of life on earth are naturalistic evolution and “young earth” creationism. Each of these particular viewpoints has its own strengths and weaknesses. Naturalistic evolution emphasizes the scientific data that we have from the earlier periods of the earth’s existence and even the data [...]

7Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Images of Truth

When we first approach the spiritual life there is a good deal of darkness in our minds. Some of this can be dispelled by changing our ideas, especially ideas that we have about God. But at some point the imagination must begin to work; and as it does so, we must [...]

4Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Unlimited Atonement

One of the things that every person most needs clarity on is the love of God. “God is Love,” John said. In order to sustain a good and healthy life we must have the conviction that no matter how deep you go into the heart of God you will find love of infinite [...]

3Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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The Trees of the Garden

The Genesis description of the Garden of Eden is one of the richest images in all of Scripture. At the center of the image are the tree of knowledge and the tree of life and the flaming sword wielded by the cherubim. I would like to offer an interpretation of this image which [...]

3Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued