Category Archives: Application

If you have read my book The Renovation of Our Soul (and from looking at the sales numbers it is obvious most of you have not), you will know that I have been profoundly influenced by the Christian philosopher Elton … Continue reading →

At a recent church service we were singing the hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” by Frances Ridley Havergal.  One phase of this hymn states:  “Take my will and make it thine, It shall be no longer mine”.  … Continue reading →

It happened in the Auschwitz extermination camp in World War II.  There was an escape from the camp and as was the custom at that camp, for every escapee 10 other prisoners were selected at random and placed in a … Continue reading →

In the exploration of the source of the Nile river in the late 1800’s, one explorer quoted a minor chief in central Africa named Comora as saying:  “The good people are all weak:  they are good because they are not … Continue reading →

Lately we have heard a great deal about following “the science” but different persons seem to have different ideas of what constitutes “the science”.  So what is “the science”? I recently was at a church at which the pastor declared … Continue reading →

A woman was lamenting the death of her son in a car accident.  She asks why God did this to her.  A hospital chaplain replies that God did not have anything to do with her son’s death and the woman … Continue reading →

Why did God make us finite?  If he wants us to believe in him, why does he hide himself from us (Isaiah 45:15)?  Why does God, in the words of Orual, the main character in C. S. Lewis’ novel Till … Continue reading →

Sophia Lee raises an issue that impacts us Christians more than is realized.  She asks:  For those of us raised in the Christian community, is our life is so filled with knowledge of the Bible and Christ, and are we … Continue reading →

You will not hear about it much in our church history, but Christians have resorted to violence multiple times when they disagreed on points of theology, even to the extent of killing fellow Christians.  Examples include Athanasius who was “quite … Continue reading →

Our current world situation—the pandemic, the various political upheavals around the world, the loss in confidence in many of our institutions—is inducing anxiety in many people.  What are we to do? In Mathew 6:25-34, Jesus instructs us not to be … Continue reading →