Fix. verb [with object] "fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position." All my life, I dug in my heels, clinging, white-knuckled, to whatever my "now" happened to be. That place, that age, those people. Change caught and tore me away, again and again, and I mourned each fresh transition, seeing always endings rather…
A counter-psalm The law of the world is imperfect, wearying the soul to death; the testimony of the world is false,establishing fools in their folly;the precepts of the world are wrong,grieving the heart;the commandments of the world are impure,blinding the eyes;the fear of the world is filthy,swiftly passing away;the rules of the world are altogether untrue and…
It had already been a long day when I stretched up on tiptoe to shelve a bowl from the dishwasher. Somehow its glass lid slipped down, ricocheted off a stack of other dishes waiting to be shelved, and landed, shattered, on my usually forgiving linoleum tiles. I didn't cry, but my disappointment must have been…
Which leads to my last implication: If these things are true, then we as Christians should value and honor the Bible. Jesus is the Savior, but he is also the Lord (Acts 2:36). God is the only one who can make authoritative truth claims. Therefore, if we want to be people of the truth, then…
A second implication to these truths is that we must have a commitment to God as he reveals himself to be. God is not an abstract idea, he is a person. We must submit ourselves to God as the ultimate authority. I have heard recently that it is popular to use the phrase, “I don’t…
The implications of these last two chapters (see Who is God? and Who Are We?) are massive. How we relate to God in light of what we now know is of first importance. As we see God and ourselves correctly, we are faced with a sober reality: God is good, and we are not. God…
The phrase “know thyself” is an incredibly important statement. We must first know ourselves if we are ever to understand how we should relate to others, our surroundings, and ultimately God. We have already answered how we can know these things, but I think it bears repeating. We are tempted to think that we are…
The first thing to be said about God is that he cannot be fully understood or explained. “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Rom 11:33). God is so vast that even his judgements are beyond finding out; how much…
The question, “How can we know?” is incredibly important. We can’t answer the other questions without first knowing the answer to this one. How can we say anything about God or people with any confidence if we don’t first establish how to discern what is true and what is false? And while there are a…
There's a popular attempt, even among self-proclaimed born-again Christians, to throw off the obligation to obey scripture with generous desire to not "box God in" to the constraints of the Bible. This form of liberation is similar to that which a skydiver would achieve by unstrapping his parachute at 10,000 feet. Deadly. My husband, justly…
Between Blue Rocks 