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
Category: Revelation
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
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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
This is post 2 of 6 in the series “Psalm 87” Reflections on Psalm 87: The Blessing and Ingathering of the Nations Psalm 87: Insights from Charles Spurgeon Psalm 87 Insights from Charles Spurgeon, part 2 Psalm 87: The New Jerusalem for All Nations Psalm 87: God Will Adopt His
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
This is post 8 of 9 in the series “happiness” Sabbatical Reflections: The Pursuit of Happiness (Part 1 of 3) Sabbatical Reflections: The Pursuit of Happiness (Part 2 of 3) Sabbatical Reflections: The Pursuit of Happiness (Part 3 of 3) Happiness: Where Does It Come From? Happiness: You Can Find
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Jews, God's blessing to the world” The Jews: God’s Means of Blessing the Nations The Jews: God’s Blessing to the World, part 2 The world has the Jews because of God’s great promise to bless all the nations of the earth