Walking in the Light
We all interact with art every day. For most of us, our day-to-day engagement with art is the common habit of listening to the radio as we drive to work or turning on the television after supper. Whether we are aware of it or not, those songs and shows communicate something to us. Art has subject matter, and that subject matter fills our imaginations. Therefore, we ought to concern ourselves with what kinds of subject matter we take...
Recommended Books (Spring 2026)
This spring we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
Exposition and Exhortation: Pattern of Emphasizing Indicatives and Imperatives in Preaching in the Book of Hebrews
Preaching is central in God’s plan to save and transform lives (1 Cor. 1:21; 2 Tim. 4:2). All of God’s people should have great interest in preaching because it is one of the foremost means God has chosen to form them spiritually. In this article, I have two groups in mind. First, I am writing to preachers, the ones who have the privilege of preaching God’s Word to local churches. Second, I am writing to church members, the ones who...
Virtue, Happiness, and the Fulfillment of Human Potential
by Nicolas Cruz Virtue is an essential quality of the Christian life; specifically, living virtuously enables us to achieve human flourishing and to fulfill our potential in God’s grand design. In this article, I will examine the four cardinal virtues as explained by Josef Pieper and suggest some ways the discipline of psychology interacts with the cardinal virtues.[1] Josepf Pieper and the Four Cardinal Virtues Josef Pieper, writing...
Reading Genesis 1:1–2:3 and Genesis 2:4–25 As Complementary, Not Contradictory
Critics sometimes assert that Genesis 1:1–2:3 and 2:4–25 present two separate creation accounts and that they contradict in relation to (a) the divine name and (b) the timing of the creation of plants, animals, and humans. Specifically, Genesis 1:1–2:3 refers to “God” and presents the creation of plants, then animals, then humans, whereas Genesis 2:4–25 refers to the “LORD God” and presents the creation of Adam, then plants, then...
Mere Spirituality: A Modest Proposal for Evangelical Spiritual Formation
C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity likened the historic Christian faith to a hallway “out of which doors open into several rooms.”[1] He argued that these rooms are various denominations or theological traditions. The confessional distinctives are to be found in the rooms, not in the hallway. Yet, in case a reader is tempted to stay in the hallway, Lewis reminds us: “[I]t is in the rooms, not in the hall, that there are fires and chairs...
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