The question in the title of this post is my attempt to grapple with the way our creaturely, conditioned, and dependent freedom interacts with the unbounded and unconditioned freedom of our Creator. Our will is free in certain ways. And His will is free is certain ways. Biblically, it is important to affirm the real [...]
Archive for March, 2011
15 Mar
Christian Service: A Sign of Salvation
…complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own but also to the others. Have this mind among [...]
11 Mar
Planks and Pleas – for One Another
The “Golden Rule” from Matthew 7:12 is familiar to many of us. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Despite this familiarity it was only this morning that I noticed how this sentence is a summary of a preceding line [...]
