A Love for Scripture
What is love but the constant pursuit of something you deem valuable? A pursuit that is paradoxically delightful and uncomfortable. To love something outside of ourselves, as fallen beings, means to resist molding the object we are pursuing into something easy for us to love. True love considers something’s true nature. The nature of Scripture […]
Prayer Sparks
Every once in a while you stumble across something that is simultaneously simple and extremely impactful; something that alters the way you do things beyond what you would ever expect. Several years ago I had just such an occurrence. I had recently started a new Bible reading plan which had me reading through each book […]
Walking by Faith
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14 Do everything in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 At least a couple of aspects in my walk of faith stand out for me from this text. First, and maybe foremost, Paul was not writing about general matters of a person’s character […]
John Webster and the Holy Habits of Theology
In my last post I analyzed John Webster as the theologian of holiness, where I considered Webster’s commitment to faithfully articulating the distinction between Creator and creation as it relates to God’s nature as God. Webster’s life could be summed up as a life-long commitment to this concept, what he himself described as “theological theology,” […]