CGG Weekly published this essay as “Beware of Unbelief” on June 14, 2024. “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.” —Hebrews 3:12 We live in an anti-God world. Cultural commentators routinely call our society “post-Christian.” Among many groups, …
In his recent post, “Stop Calling Faithfulness a Sacrifice,” Stephen Kneale offers a counter-argument to a common attitude toward living the Christian life. Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 17:10 that, having obeyed God’s commands, we are still “unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.” As …
A version of this essay, “Recent Finds,” appeared in CGG Weekly on June 22, 2012. “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’” —Luke 16:31 The insular world of biblical archeology always seems …
This essay was first published as “Making the Cut (Part Four)” on August 9, 2019, in the CGG Weekly. “He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;” —Psalm 15:3 In Part Three, we began …
This CGG Weekly essay first appeared on October 19, 2012. Before the political left hijacked the term choice, its philosophical meaning was “an individual’s freedom to determine the moral course of his own life.” This is, of course, what theologians and philosophers call “free moral agency” or “free will.” God …
This Random Bible Verse comment first appeared on another blog on September 3, 2012. “Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.” —Psalm 146:3 The psalmist’s advice in this verse is an oft-repeated notion throughout Scripture. Psalm 118:8-9 reads, “It …
I published this Random Bible Verse comment for the first time on another blog on August 25, 2012. “. . . but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.” …
