As we come out of the din of Christmas flurry and reflect on another year for the books, we should ask ourselves why God gives us so much stuff. In The Things of Earth, Joe Rigney helps us in thinking through this. Why did [God] make a world for his own glory in Christ and then fill it to the...
The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. Psalm 16:4-5 The cruelties and hardships which men endure for their false gods is...
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Matthew 6:12 Forgive us our debts: In Matthew, sins are called debts, because they expose us to condemnation at the tribunal of God, and make us debtors; nay more, they alienate us entirely from God, so that...