Some Thoughts

A few thoughts from this morning’s reading: Then Job answered the Lord and said:

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From today’s reading: For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive [...]

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Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process [...]

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What is evil? Did God create it? Can God commit evil? I hesitate to even ask such questions, given Paul’s rebuke to those who would dare tread on ‘theodicy’ grounds. The latter two questions above must be recognized for what they are — utter blasphemy. But Scripture provides us with a theodicy not just in passages such as [...]

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A few notes from this morning’s reading: For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened–not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has [...]

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From this morning’s reading: So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to [...]

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You can open your Bibles, and read there of God and of glory; O learn to open the creatures, and to open the several passages of providence, to read of God and glory there. Certainly, by such a skilful, industrious improvement, we might have a fuller taste of Christ and heaven in every bit of [...]

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Philosophers throughout the ages have multplied question upon question about being, knowledge, and ethics. Some have soared to majestic heights, nearly grasping the summit of a consistent theory only to discover a fatal flaw that sends them plummeting back to the dungeons of their unenlightened thought. Not so for Christianity. Its simplicity is profound. Its [...]

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