Recently I was talking with two artist friends in Brazil about a current project to develop an animated video from my lecture, “The Transcendence of Sexuality.” (See the video The Grand Design: Rediscovering Male and Female as Imago Dei, part of our Coram Deo online course.) During our conversation, one
Many of us have been encouraged by the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. Over the last couple of years he has suffered from benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome leaving him weak and largely out of the public eye. Many of us have prayed for the restoration of his health (and he reports doing
Are you seeing reality as God made it? Every culture has a dominant worldview that shapes its beliefs, institutions and practices. After a class in Sierra Leone completed a microbiology course, one student told the teacher, “I know that you taught us about polio, but do you want to know
Recently, I saw an image of a lion and a lamb lying together in the clouds and was reminded of the cosmic truth of history that in Jesus Christ, God’s love and justice meet, His mercy and His authority come together. J.R.R. Tolkein speaks of the incarnation of Christ as
In the first lecture in his series on the Bible, clinical psychologist and cultural phenom Dr. Jordan Peterson calls the Bible “the first hyperlinked book!” He references the beautiful and profound graphic above created by Christoph Römhild and Chris Harrison. The image captures 66,379 cross references found in scripture. (Go
Reflections on Psalm 87 Is there any hope? Are there any prospects for the restoration of our sanity, the healing of our wounds and divisions in our broken nations? If we simply look at the modern and postmodern contexts, there is little hope, mostly despair. But we know the beginning
The Puritans, like the Bereans before them, regarded the scriptures as the ultimate trump card in the trilogy of God’s revelation Truth is both revealed, and hidden. It is revealed through the word of God. As Jesus prays, in John 17:17, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
One narrative frames all truth Every narrative has a beginning. The opening line of a narrative is the beginning of the story line. The story line creates the framework for the characters in the story. This is true not only of written stories, but of cultural narratives as well. The
To Be Happy, Follow These Three Steps Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Psalm 19:7-11 describes in sacred song the significance of the law of the
The world has the Jews because of God’s great promise to bless all the nations of the earth through Abraham. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those
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