Category: Readings

  • A Flea Wading In Our Pool Of Knowledge

    Vivid language from the late R.C. Sproul. No one can come to Christ without having some knowledge of who God is. But after one comes to Christ, the issue is whether knowledge grows or stays puny and vague. Unfortunately, a flea could wade in the depth of knowledge about God in the mind of the…

  • Offensive Worship

    In our day Christians want to take Scripture out of the service in order that more people will be comfortable. The Early Church did have Scripture as the centerpiece and sometimes died for it. What a difference between today and yesterday! Michael Kruger wrote a great piece on the offensiveness of the Early Church’s Worship.…

  • Freedom

    This is true freedom. A freedom that no creature can know or truly understand. God exists as totally independent of all things. God is free in acting, as in creating and preserving, because these acts do not arise from the necessity of his nature. He was free to create or not to create; to continue…

  • Hodge on Mysticism

    Mysticism is alive and well in many books about knowing the will of God or decision making. Here is Charles Hodge’s description of Mysticism and the difference between it and what Christians believe about the Holy Spirit leading us to understand the objective truth of the Scriptures. Mysticism, in its application to theology, has assumed…