“The desire to be in God’s image without attaining Christ’s image is a desire for immediacy, which wants everything without detour and without self-actualization, a narcissistic desire of the ego to settle down in God, immortal and almighty, that doesn’t find it necessary ‘to let life be crucified’ and to experience the night of pain….

I agree with Marcel Sarot in that this is the best way to characterize the passibilist position: “(1) God’s feelings, or the quality of His inner life, can be influenced by the world, but only in a personal way, and not in a causal way. This means that God always remains Master of His own…

Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the Cross. He who is King of the angels is arrayed in a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heaven in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery. He who in Jordan set Adam free receives blows upon His face. The…

We need to put on the WHOLE armor of God! The belt of truth w/o the breastplate of righteousness causes cognitive and spiritual dissonance, since it’s possible to speak of God’s truth w/o living in Christ’s righteousness. Obviously, if we have been wounded in spiritual warfare we can neither enjoy God’s peace nor be properly…

Sorry ladies, but if Jesus were with us today, he wouldn’t be the hot, grungy-looking musician you’d want to dance with at a nightclub. No, he’d be the homeless guy you stepped over to get to the nightclub.

Nietzsche called Christianity a ‘herd morality’, a ‘slave mentality’. I couldn’t agree more. Except, Christians are not shepherdless sheep. We have a Good Shepherd who willingly lays down his life for his sheep and has the power to take it up again. If this God is our Shepherd and we are his sheep, would we…

“Our minds must be set on: (1) Christ (Phil 2:5) (2) Humility (Rm 12:3, 16) (3) Discipline (2 Tm 1:7) (4) Excellent things (Phil 4:8) (5) Action (1 Pt 1:13) (6) Heavenly things (Col 3:1-2) The spiritual battle is won in the mind!”

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Cor 10:5) Our thought life matters to God! It is (partly) how we show Him we love Him and how we set ourselves apart for Him in…

When we focus on our circumstances, God offends us and we offend Him. But when we focus on God, we offend our circumstances by being victorious over them. Hallelujah! We have the victory in Christ Jesus!

We want to overcome our fears with faith in God, but how do we do that? One way is to remember God in context to History. Recall what God has done throughout the ages for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, et al. Particularly with the patriarchs, God was sovereign, providential, merciful, and He kept…