The Holy Spirit at Pentecost: Insights from Peter’s Sermon in Acts 2

During the Jewish Feast of Pentecost, just weeks after Resurrection Sunday, the Holy Spirit descended upon the first followers of Jesus Christ. Empowered by the Spirit, believers began speaking in other tongues, declaring “the mighty works of God” (Acts 2:11). [1] Crowds quickly gathered as Jesus’ followers proclaimed God’s works in the various languages of … Continue reading The Holy Spirit at Pentecost: Insights from Peter’s Sermon in Acts 2

Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument

Beautiful without doubt is the world, excelling, as well in its magnitude as in the arrangement of its parts, both those in the oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical form. Yet it is not this, but its Artificer, that we must worship. For when any of your subjects come … Continue reading Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument

Noelle Mering: At the heart of the woke movement is not unity but rupture….

At the heart of the woke movement is not unity but rupture — rupture from our shared past, from a shared vocabulary, from an ability to reason together, from a canon of Western philosophy and literature, and from a shared purpose and identity as human beings. This scattering has severe and far-reaching effects. Globally, we … Continue reading Noelle Mering: At the heart of the woke movement is not unity but rupture….

Francis Schaeffer: If we demand, in any of our relationships, either perfection or nothing, we will get nothing

Knowing that all men are sinners frees us from the cruelty of utopianism. Utopianism is cruel, for it expects of expects of men and women what they are not and will not be until Christ comes. Such utopianism, forgetting what the Bible says about human sinfulness, is hard-hearted; it is as monstrous a thing as … Continue reading Francis Schaeffer: If we demand, in any of our relationships, either perfection or nothing, we will get nothing