Author: Edwin Smith
A Capacity For Wonder
Once a student met with him to complain about having to read Augustine’s Confessions. “It’s boring,” the student whined. “No, it&#...
Of Making Many Books
I was standing in Daedalus Books in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I had recently read Mortimer J. Adler’s How to Read a Book. I was alive with the desire to re...
God Saves Sinners
God: the Triune Jehovah, Father, Son and Spirit; three Persons working together in sovereign wisdom, power and love to achieve the salvation of a chosen people,...
The appointed time
The death of Christ is envisaged as forming a pivotal point in history with God’s righteousness demonstrated there having effect for both the past and the...
“To what end does he bother to speak to us?”
The truly staggering answer which the Bible gives to this question is that God’s purpose in revelation is to make friends with us. It was to this end...
The most significant means to the most significant end
Someone asked me recently, after learning I was a Bible teacher, if I was a God-worshiper or a Bible-worshipper. The question didn’t come as a complete surprise...
How Patience Promotes Learning
We love “aha” moments—those moments when something that has confused us suddenly makes sense. What we sometimes overlook about “aha moments” is that they occur ...
Joy Springs Forth
We had crepe myrtles planted in our yard last November. They've been bare sticks in the ground throughout the past few months. Every day for a month I'...