by webman | Oct 18, 2021 | Soul
With all due respect to former First Lady Nancy Reagan, resisting temptation in the Christian life is much more nuanced and challenging than the popular advertising slogan of the 1980s, “Just Say No…” [keep reading]
by webman | Sep 27, 2021 | Soul
Cathedrals were designed to invoke a sense of awe and wonder. Cathedrals are intended to move within the worshiper, an internal sense of smallness in contrast to the grandeur of God. Surely, in your travels, some of you have experienced just this… [keep...
by webman | Sep 6, 2021 | Soul
Last year I changed pastorates from a church in the southeastern United States to a church in the Pacific Northwest. Of course there are cultural changes that come along with geographic shifts, but one of the biggest differences I noticed was the attitude toward...
by webman | Aug 16, 2021 | Soul
Louis Berkhof who is perhaps best known for his “Systematic Theology” has written this more concise and non-technical “Summary of Christian Doctrine” which contains much of what he discusses in far more detail in the former work and...
by webman | Jul 25, 2021 | Soul
Thomas Watson (ca. 1620-1686) was a great Presbyterian Puritan preacher who wrote much and whose books are still read today. Watson’s most famous work, A Body of Practical Divinity, published posthumously in 1692, consisted of 176 sermons on the Westminster Shorter...
by webman | Jul 4, 2021 | Soul
Here I remark that the God of love himself dwells in heaven. Heaven is the palace or presence chamber of the high and holy One, whose name is love, and who is both the cause and source of all holy love. God, considered with respect to his essence, is everywhere — he...
