obedience

“Well-Beloved Child” – Letters from Mothers to their Children

Simonetta Carr
May 10, 2023
“Well-Beloved Child” – Letters from Mothers to their Children From the earliest times, mothers have felt the responsibility of training and instructing their children. We find plenty of examples both in the Bible and in church history. This desire has often been expressed in their letters. When...

Psalm 121: The Keeping God

Keith Kauffman
Oct 21, 2022
Wandering eyes are bad harbinger in Scripture. From the opening chapters of Genesis, when Eve looked at the tree and saw that it was good for food and “a delight to the eyes,” humanity’s false reliance on sight is a consistent theme. From Lot to David, whenever an individual sees that something...

Wisdom and Productivity

Stephen Unthank
Jan 17, 2022
Solomon, in wanting his son to pursue and know wisdom, instructs him to “consider the ant” (Proverbs 6:6). The command is to observe and learn the ways of this small but impressive creature. What impressive wisdom does the ant teach us? Diligent. Hard. work. In short, the ant is productive. And...

Grace for Service

Mark Johnston
Apr 24, 2020
The more we have explored the theme of grace as it unfolds in different ways throughout Scripture, the more we have discovered its variegated beauty and its far-reaching implications for our lives as Christians. It is more pervasive than we often imagine and, as we have noted in an earlier post,...

Listening to His Law

Bret Saunders
Oct 17, 2019
Editor's Note: This is the final post in this series. Part 1 [ available here ] introduced the connection between a biblical understanding of education and that of fatherhood. Part 2 [ available here ] explored the storytelling aspect of education. Now the author turns to the second aspect, Law,...

A Historic Framework for Social Responsibility

Jay Harvey
Aug 10, 2017
How shall the church think about social issues of race, justice and power? It is increasingly popular for these issues to be framed and discussed in the church using the categories of social justice and racial privilege as defined by the social sciences. In secular academic settings such categories...

Cruciform Suffering

Daniel Timmer
May 30, 2017
The fact that the incarnate Son of God "learned obedience" (Heb. 5:8) is an essential aspect of Jesus' human nature and so is indispensable to sound Christology and soteriology. Apart from the cross itself, the clearest example we have of this "learning" is probably found in the Synoptic accounts...