San Juan Capistrano, a small city in southern California, is famous for the swallows that arrive and depart every year with predictable consistency. Around March 19 they can be expected to arrive, and around October 23 (the day that Saint John of Capistrano died in 1456), they can be expected to depart. “Like swallows returning [...]
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On your next visit to a large shopping mall, see if one of the busiest kiosks is not the one selling genealogical information: family histories, coats of arms, and the derivation of names. People are fascinated with discovering their “true” identities. “Were our ancestors really ‘bakers?’” the Baker family asks. “Are we descended from [...]
“No excuses!” How many times in your life have those case-closing words rung in your ears—or proceeded from your mouth? While the words are often spoken by parents, teachers, coaches, or judges with a finality that sounds irrefutable, there is probably always room for argument in the realm of human experience. Were the instructions really [...]
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28Mar11
The Restoration of All Things
God of glory, in wisdom You have made the heavens and the earth, and nothing is too difficult for You. You rule over the cosmos with its hundreds of billions of galaxies and hold all things together. You created all things for your good pleasure, and the heavens proclaim Your glory, majesty and greatness. Your [...]
Lord in heaven, I confess that You are high and lifted up and that Your purposes are past finding out. I also confess that I often want You to be more understandable and comprehensible so that I might behold more than just the fringe of Your ways. There are many things in Scripture that do [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of character. – When God revealed himself as the compassionate and gracious God who is slow to anger, who abounds in love and faithfulness, who maintains love to thousands and who forgives wickedness, rebellion and sin, he made it clear this his personal character is [...]
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Here is a clear and cogent response to Stephen Hawking’s new book that attempts to explain the universe without God. John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science. As a scientist I’m certain Stephen Hawking is wrong. You can’t explain the universe without God [...]
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. A Christian is one who accepts the terms of the created order: God is the Maker, we are the creatures; God is the Redeemer, we are the redeemed; [...]
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This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. But someone might object that this skillful kind of faith is too simple. Tozer responds, “It would be like God to make the most vital thing easy and [...]
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14Jul10
Noticia, Assentia, and Fiducia
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. There are three Latin words that can all mean faith: noticia, assentia, fiducia. Noticia simply means that you saw something or took “notice” of its existence. Assentia means [...]
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