Owen had no doubt. The horrific combination of comets, plague, fire, and war proved that God was judging England. The mid-1660s were years of dark providences, which God sent when his “patience is abused,” his “warnings are despised,” and people believed themselves to be secure.

We may not even have the language to say “come Holy Spirit”, but we're saying, “God, I need you.” And I think that that cry actually is a cry that, if we actually understood, can help us to be open to how God might be present in, what we might...

While this meditation is from the context of being a doctor it is predominantly about being a Christian in this world, about answering the call to be a light in darkness, to be salt in a spoiling world. One of the most important questions a Christian will have to answer...

How does my faith inform the way I wash my cat? Well it means that maybe it encourages me to wash my cat every once in a while and take care of it. That is God's good creation. But it also encourages me not to wash it with more love...

Faith cannot exist without knowledge, but knowledge by itself is neither saving faith nor transforming faith. Doctrine must descend from the head to the heart and take root there. It must, under God, change the way we think, feel, will and act; it must change the kind of people we...

I don’t want the chicken nuggets—the better parts chopped up, compressed, and given to me in bite-size portions. What’s more, I don’t want to be the kind of person who’s content with that—the little bits, un-nutritious, unfulfilling. I want the whole meal. I want to be the kind of person...

Knowing about Abraham Kuyper will give your discipleship the nuance and complexity required to effectively discern how to bear witness to Christ in our diverse and secular culture today.

We are a long way from these people. Many years have passed. Culture has changed. People have changed. Or have they? My prayer is that we would read these prayers and realize how alike we are. We still have the same kinds of needs... The Puritans had trouble paying the...

In the world of Jesus and Paul it was more common to speak more than one language. The words of Jesus and Paul are of course recorded in the New Testament in Greek. But that doesn’t mean Jesus said everything in Greek...

The importance of worldviewish thinking comes with the realization that while he is a personal Savior he is also more than that. We must also know him as the Lord and King over all things. This is what Abraham Kuyper captured so well when he said that every square inch...