I recently commented on a post by Jeremy Myers on his Till He Comes blog. In response to my comment Jeremy asked the question, how can a grace-based church be identified? This post is an attempt at answering that question. I came up with five things … [Continue reading]
"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household," (Ephesians 2:19, NASB) Too often I have experienced situations, even in good churches, where people lose sight of the fact … [Continue reading]
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the … [Continue reading]
To my knowledge, no-one who experiences moral failure set out to end up there. No-one gets up in the morning and declares that it looks like a good day to fail. Failure is not a goal; it is a consequence of choices made along the way. So how can we … [Continue reading]
