“Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.” (Psalm 63:3 ESV) As we seek to understand difficult doctrines like hell, election, the existence of evil, and unjust suffering, it is good to affirm the sovereignty of God over it all and the glory of God as the ultimate purpose of it …
Month: March 2011
Growing Weary?
The weariness of winter struck again today in Minnesota. Enduring icy snow and poor road conditions, we are reminded that some things linger in our lives longer than we expect. This year's winter season has strong staying power. Many of us have grown weary as we wait for spring to sprout across our frozen tundra. …
Election and Love
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but …
Lose Hell, Lose the Gospel
The recent firestorm over hell is summarized here and here. It is not new that someone would question the doctrine of eternal punishment in hell for people who never come to Christ by faith. Sadly, it is not new that even professing Christian ministers would question such a doctrine. But with such controversy comes a …
