Beauty Is in the Eye of the True Beholder August 06, 2023 by: Philip Graham Ryken The Beauty of Eternity Where have you seen the beauty that God is bringing into the world? I have glimpsed it in a flaming meteor streaking across the August sky and disappearing with a flash over a darkly shimmering…
What Does James 1:2 Mean? August 05, 2023 by: Robert L. Plummer This article is part of the What Does It Mean? series. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. —James 1:2 Joy in Trials The second word in the Greek text of verse 2, charan (“joy”), corresponds closely…
Turning Prayer from Monologue into Dialogue with God August 03, 2023 by: Daniel J. Brendsel From Monologue to Dialogue Though, sadly, he is not well known in many Christian circles today, Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) remains one of the giants in the Western theological and philosophical tradition. Anselm seems to have coined the highly influential…
Teens Need Something They Can’t Find Online August 02, 2023 by: Collin Hansen The Allure of the Online The world turned upside down for all of us in March 2020. Probably no one felt that change as much as teenagers did. Social life shrunk to homes and families. School moved entirely online. Many of us…
Why Did God’s Beautiful Plan of Redemption Involve Something So Ugly? August 01, 2023 by: Philip Graham Ryken That Old, Ugly Cross At the center of our beauty-loving God’s perfect plan for making us beautiful is something so grotesque and so offensive that people cannot even bear to look: the God-damnable death that Jesus died…