Baptism is not complete without its complement, the holy supper. When an infant is born into the world, the nurse who is in attendance washes it, because it is born unclean. It needs bathing, but that is not all it needs. It also needs food.
It was not from Greece or Rome that the regeneration of human life came forth;—that mighty metamorphosis dates from Bethlehem and Golgotha.
Prayer changes things. When we pray, we are asking God to change things. And when He answers prayer, He does change things.
If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.
The sun is reaching its solar maximum, people are worried about an “internet-apocalypse”, and since the pandemic we are again witnessing mass hysteria. In what, or who, do we place our trust?
The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.
We cannot make sense of suffering, or know how to resolve suffering, outside of the Judeao-Christian worldview.
The inspired Word is the divine THESIS, the lens by which we can see the world for what it truly is, and the guiding principle by which we ought to order our lives.
Too many Christians were satisfied with the form of faith without its substance. The situation has not changed over the centuries.
With the exception of the first introductory essay on polarization, the essays in this volume were presented at a conference on “Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis,” held at Redeemer College, Hamilton, Ontario on May 30-June 1, 1985.