If the laws of Nature are necessary truths, no miracle can break them: but then no miracle needs to break them. It is with them as with the laws of arithmetic. If I put six pennies into a drawer on Monday and six more on Tuesday, the laws decree that—other things being equal—I shall find … Continue reading C.S. Lewis: If God comes to work miracles, He comes ‘like a thief in the night.’
Thomas à Kempis: TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures…
TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every part must be read in the spirit in which it was written. For in the Scriptures we ought to seek profit rather than polished diction.
Jesus, Caesar’s Coin, and Christian Statecraft in Luke 20:20-26
Peter Paul Reuben: The Tribute Money Caesar’s coin. Also called a denarius. A single day’s wage for a peasant. Such coins were stamped with the image of Caesar along with the inscription “Tiberius Caesar, Augusts, son of divine Augustus.”[1] Jesus Christ used a simple Roman denarius as an object lesson on maintaining pure worship while … Continue reading Jesus, Caesar’s Coin, and Christian Statecraft in Luke 20:20-26
Miroslav Volf: God is Wrathful Because God is Love.
God isn’t wrathful in spirit of being love. God is wrathful because God is love
John Calvin on God’s Providence and Paternal Care Towards Us
We ought diligently to ponder on the paternal goodness of God toward the human race…as often as we call God the Creator of heaven and earth, let us remember that the distribution of all the things which he created are in his hand and power…that thus allured by his great goodness and beneficence, we may study with our whole heart to love and serve him.
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