I wrote this essay, “How Far Have We Really Come?” for CGG Weekly on December 6, 2002 (republished on November 25, 2022). “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” —Daniel …
In “How to Think about God Promoting His Own Glory,” Amy K. Hall takes on a tricky subject. If a sinful human were to make the kind of claims God makes in His Word, we would rightly judge the person as proud, vain, and dangerously self-absorbed. Yet God does not …
CGG Weekly published a version of this essay, “A Christian’s Information Filter, on December 21, 2012. “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” —Isaiah 8:20 We live in the Information Age. The …
I wrote this essay, “Man’s Natural Spirituality,” for the November 11, 2005, issue of CGG Weekly. “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.” —Job 32:8 It is not uncommon to hear of hardened soldiers—trained to fight, kill, destroy, cuss, and drink—throwing …
This essay, originally “The Honor Due to Parents,” appeared in the CGG Weekly on June 25, 2021. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” —Exodus 20:12 Honor is a word that often fails to receive its …
This essay was published as “In Defense of Marriage” in the CGG Weekly on August 1, 2003. “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” —Hebrews 13:4 In the last few weeks, we have witnessed a firestorm of controversy surrounding the institution …
This CGG Weekly essay, originally titled “Equalibrium,” first hit the web on June 6, 2003. “Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.” —Judges 2:16 God has endowed His creation with a self-adjusting mechanism that, unless altered by cataclysmic forces, brings …
This essay first appeared on August 10, 2001, as “The True Gospel (Part Two)” in the CGG Weekly. “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” —I Corinthians 1:30 Whether in English or Greek, gospel means “good news” or “good …
