It has become fashionable to distil the essence of Christianity into a catchphrase that appears on Instagram bios, as captions to stock images, or as laptop stickers: love God, love others.
It is thus a provocative and puzzling title for an article that will most assuredly assert that people must love God and others. Yet the provocation and puzzlement is intentional – the message of Chri…
Under the shadow,
under the shadow,
oh, keep me Lord,
within the meadow;
forsake me not, o my God,
o my God, forsake me not,
do not let Your glory depart
from my soul; let me want not.
Let me spend a day, and then more,
if not, then a day and then no more,
but make that day last forever,
the shadow my soul longing for.
Hide from me the horrors of my heart,
y…
For all my days of boy to man,
I have only sought to fill my hand,
To feed the wants I so desire,
To sate the lusts of heart a-fire.
Delighted I in manhood pow’r,
No longer bound in boyhood mire.
Knowledge grew, from days to years,
Of the world, its joys and tears.
I learnt the sky, the moon, the stars,
The earth and its peoples living afar.
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My dearest friend,
I thank you for your note. You wrote asking a very crucial question: what does it mean to fear God? I understand your confusion. Scripture in myriad places indicate that the fear of God is a virtue (Psalm 31:19, 112:1; Proverbs 1:7; Luke 1:50) that ought to be found amongst God’s people. Yet elsewhere John tells us that believers who fear God’s punishment have no…
This article is the prolegomenon in a series that will seek to set out the doctrine of the Trinity in clear and accessible language, to lay the foundation for deeper Trinitarian reflection. It is a digest that will try to cover the high points of the doctrine to hopefully equip the reader with sufficient vocabulary and concepts to probe deeper into the wonderful felicity that is the inner life of…
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