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Reflections
Reflections brings together thoughtful, devotional pieces that consider Scripture, experience, and discipleship with care and honesty. These articles dwell on the personal side of faith, drawing lessons from everyday life, prayer, struggle, and growth, and offering readers encouragement, perspective, and space to think more deeply about their walk with God.
March 24, 2022
In his book, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry, Presbyterian scholar Gregory K. Beale (1949 - ) argues the case that we take on the characteristics of what we worship. So, for instance, those who worshiped idols became just as blind, deaf and immobile, spiritually speaking, as their false gods.
March 24, 2022
Recorded in the Bible are five "one thing" messages which will teach us successive steps toward possessing immortal life in the Age to come.
March 23, 2022
It’s all very well loving those we get along with – our friends, family, people who are on our social level. That’s easy. But loving the unlovely – that’s what God is looking for, because that’s God’s love toward us.
March 21, 2022
In the midst of the Law, here is this picture of the shining, smiling face of God. Smiling toward His people.
March 18, 2022
When Peter talks about the signs of Christ’s coming, he says we should be “waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God” (2 Pet. 3:12). What does it mean for us to be “hastening” for the coming day?
March 7, 2022
God justifies people. This is amazing, and is arguably the most powerful expression of His might. But what do we make of it when we encounter people justifying God?
March 7, 2022
If we’re facing pressures, we are in the company of the finest women and men of faith ever. And in the company of all humanity.
February 25, 2022
I can remember every word he spoke; I hear them when I wake up, and before I go to sleep again. Each day, he talks to me, and each day I listen—even now that I am an old man.
February 23, 2022
Much evil has been committed in the name of religion when people are obsessed with spiritual purity and set up an authoritarian system to prevent spiritual contamination.
February 21, 2022
Frustration and anger arise out of expectations not being met. Something ought to be, and it isn’t. Is this something God experiences?
February 17, 2022
I believe there is a reason God leaves us in the dark when it comes to many of the things we struggle to understand.