A Sentence That Stretches Into Eternity
The tension (a weak word) between the temporality of sentences and the eternity that would render them and the strivings they portray superfluous is powerfully ...
Tag: trinity
Learning to See Through the Eyes of our Forebears
Christian classics—such as Athanasius’ treatise On the Incarnation or Augustine’s Confessions—possess the ability to tether us to our collective pas...
What Matters Supremely
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I a...
Have We Been Transformed?
The ultimate test of whether we have grasped theological truth is thus not so much whether we have comprehended it rationally, but whether it has transformed us...
Coffee with Jim
One of the things [the students at Tyndale] particularly treasured about Packer was his willingness to talk theology over the college breakfast table. The stude...
The Most Powerful Help to the Reformation
Luther’s New Testament was so much multiplied and spread by printers that even tailors and shoemakers, yea, even women and ignorant persons who had accept...
The Happy Land of the Trinity
This inner life that God lives, in the happy land of the Trinity above all worlds, is a livelier life than any other life. We know about it because we have over...
The Boldness of New Testament Doctrine
Is it too bold of us to declare what God was like, or what he was doing, before creation? It requires boldness, to be sure, but only the boldness of the New Tes...
The Good News of God For An Oblivious Bride
…When we lose our ability to see the Trinity as directly connected to the gospel, we tend to reduce it to an issue of authority and mental obedience. No w...