1517 Blogcast

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

Despite his trust in empiricism, throughout his life, Locke never entirely let go of the inspired Scriptures—or perhaps more accurately, the Scriptures never let go of him.

The night has passed and the day broken. In response to the morning dawn, birds sing, beasts arouse themselves and all humanity arises.

For all mankind, the answer is terrifically simple and remains the same: God wants to turn us towards the cross and then turn us back to our neighbors.

It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.

Although God is always closer to us than the nose on our face, he has not taken the wraps off and given any sinful and mortal human being a full-measure, face-to-face meeting.

Calvary is our mountain of pardon. It is the place which reveals most definitively God’s plan to redeem and reconcile sinners to himself.

This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.

He picks the unexpected and the unlikely, and goes to the unforeseen places, stacking the odds against himself, in order that age after age might stand in open-mouthed wonder at his sovereignty in and over all things.

What God created, God will grow. We don’t add a few stitches onto his creation.