Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.
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And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God….
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Throughout this past year and the years preceding it, the profound comfort I derive from knowing God’s providence has often been mingled with a sobering realisation: His providence does not exempt me from pain in my walk with Christ. I do not look forward to the experience of suffering with giddy anticipation or a smile…
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This is deeply ironic and tragic because in the Christian gospel we have the one resource that can unlock the heart and free us to take off the masks. As long as we view the Christian church as a club for those who make the grade socially, we will be unwilling to speak freely of our shortcomings as believers.
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To place faith in dead saints and visit their “shrines” hoping for miraculous results is not Christianity as we find it in the New Testament.
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In January this year, I read a book by John Piper called Providence. In it, he shows that the pervasive theme of all that God does in redemptive history is that God be known, enjoyed, and praised for who He really is. My three takes from Piper’s book were: 1) a God-saturated, scripturally-informed and God-entranced worldview…
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In the previous article, we touched on Satan’s folly in continuing headlong in stubborn, suicidal rebellion against Omnipotence. Like the post-modernist who denies Satan’s existence yet serves him daily, Satan himself continues to serve God’s purpose, even though he doesn’t realise it (in his folly). Satan, being uniformly evil, sincerely means to harm God’s people,…
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In the previous article, we considered the meaning of Providence, leaning on the historical confessions of faith. Pastor and author John Piper beautifully sums up the historical definitions of Providence by describing Providence as ‘God’s wise and purposeful sovereignty’1. In other words, nothing happens outside of God’s sovereign will – including even calamities and apparent…
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We are all, of course, familiar with the term “Providence”. It is often used as a shorthand for “If God permits”. But what do we mean by these terms? Do we really know? I fear there is much mental haziness and confusion at this point in the Christian landscape. Defining Providence As the 27th article…
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Few books have been as practically helpful to me as Nabeel Qureshi’s ‘Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus’ and its sequel, ‘No God But One: Allah or Jesus.’ As a Muslim, Nabeel wrestled with the Christian doctrine of the Trinity—having been taught that the Trinity is a thinly veiled polytheism. Consequently, he struggled with the notion of…
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