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The God Who Can: Why Omnipotence Matters
When the news is loud, it is easy to believe that the most important things in the world are happening in summit rooms. Presidents and prime ministers fly between capitals, and before long we feel tossed to and fro by it all. Isaiah 40 was written for people who felt...
Bring Them Up in the Lord: Six Habits for the Christian Home
Paul’s instruction to fathers has two halves. The first is negative: “Do not provoke your children to anger.” The second is a positive imperative: “Bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). The opposite of bad parenting is not no...
The Unchanging God: Standing firm on the rock that never moves
We live in a world in which everything changes. Children grow, seasons turn, bodies weaken, and even the earth itself, the psalmist says, will “wear out like a garment.” In Psalm 102, a man whose strength has been “broken in mid-course” (v. 23) cries out to the Lord...
Biblical Wisdom for Parenting: How to Exasperate Your Children (Paul Schlehlein)
Parenting requires discipline. Children need boundaries, correction, instruction, and authority. Scripture does not call parents to be their children’s friends at the expense of being parents. Yet the same text (Ephesians 6:1–4) that commands parents to discipline and...
The Grace of God: Three Reasons Grace is Amazing
John Newton, author of “Amazing Grace,” knew something about grace. Born in England in 1725, he worked as a young man in the transatlantic slave trade and became the captain of a slave ship. During a violent storm, believing that the ship was about to sink, he cried...
Biblical Wisdom for Parenting: A Theological Foundation
Parenting is not easy. Every generation faces its own pressures, and Christian parents today are raising children in a culture that often has very different ideas about marriage, family, authority, education, and morality. It can leave parents frustrated and...
The Weight that Changes Everything: Discovering God’s Glory in Creation, Christ, and You
Imagine a bowl piled high with grains of sugar or salt. Now imagine that every single grain represents some aspect of God’s glory. There are more grains in that bowl than could ever be counted, and yet all we need is one grain on our tongue to begin to savour...
One Dwelling: God Among His People
Why build a house at all? Surely not merely to admire its architecture, and not merely as a shelter for people to gather in occasionally. A house is built to be lived in. This is the climax of Paul’s picture in Ephesians 2, and it arrives in v. 22: “In him you also...
The Omniscience of God: The Good News of an All-Knowing God for the Humble, Anxious, and Lonely
As we continue our consideration of God’s attributes, we turn to his omniscience. It may be a technical-sounding word, but it simply means that God is all-knowing. You will not find the word “omniscience” in the Bible, but the idea is thoroughly biblical: God knows...