While the Bible tells the story of flawed human beings, it also tells the story of how God used those flawed humans beings in exceptional ways. The bad new is that sinful human beings are … well sinful and human. The good news is that human beings sometimes do things beyond what one might expect [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
The Bible Is God’s Story About Flawed Human Beings
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Bible, Good News, Human Beings, II Corinthians 4 on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is Most Rewarding?
Posted in Chan, Francis, tagged Bible, God's Commands, Sacrifice on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.
- Francis Chan, Crazy Love: [...]
The Theistic God We Can Discover is Consistent with the God of the Bible
Posted in Geisler, Norman L., Turek, Frank, tagged Bible, General Revelation, God, Natural Revelation, Philosophy, Psalm 19, Reason, Romans 1, Romans 2, Science, Special Revelation, Theism on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Theism is the proper term to describe such a God. Now here is the amazing thing about these findings: the theistic God we have discovered is consistent with the God of the Bible, but we have discovered him without use of the Bible. We have shown that through good reason, science and philosophy much can [...]
Explosive Growth of Christianity in Africa
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Africa, Bible, Christianity, Good and Evil, Jesus Christ on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why has Christianity grown so explosively in these places [Africa]? African scholar Lamin Saunneh gives a most intriguing answer. Africans, he said, had a long tradition of belief in a supernatural world of good and evil spirits. When Africans began to read the Bible in their own languages many began to see in Christ the [...]
Whose Claims Are Really “Conversation-Stoppers?”
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Secularism, Religious Beliefs, Richard Rorty, Convictions, Self-Realization, Autonomy on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Philosopher Richard] Rorty insists that religious-based beliefs are conversation stoppers. But all of our most fundamental convictions about things are beliefs that are nearly impossible to justify to those who don’t share them. Secular concepts such as “self-realization” and “autonomy” are impossible to prove and are “conversation stoppers” just as much as appeals to the [...]
We Would Do Well to Learn from History
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Church Abuses, Church History, Faith, Religion on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is the answer, then, to the very fair and devastating criticisms of the record of the Christian church? The answer is not to abandon the Christian faith, because that wold leave us with neither the standards nor the resources to make correction. Instead we should move to a fuller and deeper grasp of what [...]
The Church is A Hospital for Sinners, not a Museum for Saints
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Church, Grace, Jesus' Death, Jesus' Resurrection, Salvation, Theology on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christian theology also speaks of the seriously flawed character of real Christians. A central message of the Bible is that we can only have a relationship with God by sheer grace. Our mortal efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. Jesus, through his death and resurrection, has provided salvation for us, [...]
Not the Home We Long For
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Fallen World, Human Nature, Material World, Natural World on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Bible, we live in a natural world that is now fallen. We were not made for a world of disease and natural disaster, a world in which everything decays and dies, including ourselves. This world, as it now exists, is not the home we long for. A real, final homecoming would mean [...]
The Human Race is a Band of Exiles
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Exile, Luke 15, Prodigal Son on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is no coincidence that story after story contains the pattern of exile. The message of the Bible is that the human race is a band of exiles trying to come home. The parable of the prodigal son is about every one of us.
- Tim Keller, Prodigal God, copyright 2008, page 97-98
