Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Thursday “Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?” Job 7:20b In today’s Bible reading of Job 7–8, Job finishes his rejoinder to Eliphaz in chapter 7, and Bildad lectures Job in chapter 8. Chapter 7 opens with Job’s […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Sunday – But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6 – Today’s Bible reading is Romans 7–8. If you’re […]
Read MoreWe either stand before God as a guilty rebel under His judgment, or through faith in Christ, we stand clean before Him in joy and wonder.
Read MoreGiving thanks frequently receives short shrift when we talk about it, because we tend to discuss it either superficially when we are at ease in our circumstances, or else in denial of the pain of difficulties. We give moralizing lectures about it or sometimes present the idea of giving thanks to God as a sort […]
Read MoreI’m thankful for many things—my husband, my children and for various family and friends who are part of my life. I am grateful for strangers I have met who have encouraged me. Over the past three years my family has been through difficult times, as you may have guessed from some of my writings. We’ve […]
Read MoreIn True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer writes: “Intellectual pursuits can be to the glory of God. But today much intellectual pursuit is not a pursuit of truth, or a search for truth, but a game—and the best game one can play…Theology today is often a superior game, just like the game of general intellectual thinking….If I […]
Read MoreSeveral months after I became a Christian I attended a fall conference for college students from several universities within the state. I wasn’t doing very well that weekend, and Saturday evening when I went to my bunk I found a small packet on my pillow.
Read MoreDespite the denial of absolute truth by postmodernism, our own eyes bear witness to the reality that truth is truth for all because to all the universe gives evidence of God. In the New Testament we have the record of other eyewitnesses—eyewitnesses to the resurrected Christ. What was from the beginning, what we have heard, […]
Read MoreThe title of this post is from the 1968 Star Trek quote I mentioned in The Era of Six Impossible Things: “Is truth not truth for all?” A Christian answers with a resounding, “Yes!”
When truth is in the realm of the physical universe each of us must answer, “Yes, truth is truth for all.”…
It’s another story, however, when it comes to discussing truth in the moral and metaphysical universe in our postmodern society…
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Kindling for Candles 