The eye of the heart As we have seen, an aspect of the essence of God is beauty. David wrote about wanting to “behold the beauty of the LORD” in His temple (Ps. 27.4), and…
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One as good as another? A clever song from my parents’ generation sang of the relativity of pronunciation, and why it doesn’t matter whether we say “po-tay-to” or “po-tah-to.” One pronunciation is as good as…
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It can be very easy to miss or overlook important teachings of Scripture, especially when they are mentioned en passant. One such important teaching is found in Genesis 2.9: “And out of the ground the…
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If there is a motto that might be applied to those groups of twos and threes who are spending and being spent for one another’s souls, it might well be, “Against the world, for the…
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Paul was a true soul friend. See the way young men like Silas, Timothy, Titus, Clement, and others gravitated to him, to learn from him and serve alongside him in his ministry. These men were…
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The churches in Corinth had fallen into a crisis: Schism, abuse of worship and the Lord’s Supper, winking at sin, neglecting their callings and gifts, and, worst of all, failing at the basics of love.…
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Between friendship and living like the Lone Ranger, I’m pretty sure friendship is the preferred mode of existence. Everybody wants friends, and most people have friends. TV commercials are populated with friends doing things together—driving…
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Perhaps the most beloved of all Carole King’s songs is “You’ve Got a Friend”: When you’re down and troubled and you need some loving care, and nothin’, oh nothin’ is going right, close your eyes…
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In his introduction to the Everyman’s Library edition of The City of God, Sir Ernest Barker observed, “This is what makes the work one of the great turning-points in the history of human destiny: It…
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The growing antipathy—and in some cases, outright hostility—to the Christian movement in our day bears some resemblance to the complaints of those ancient pagan Romans who fled to North Africa after the fall of Rome…
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