By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen (Hebrews 11:3, NLT). There is a known fact of creation that nobody understands. Let me explain this “known fact” in Pastor Grant’s terminology, which will likely further confuse […]
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For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:8, ESV). Not too long ago, I wrote an Interruption on my Top Five Christian Authors, but I left one out. Let me introduce William Lane Craig, author of the books
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well (Psalm 139:14, ESV). I became acquainted with Dr. Paul Brand because he co-wrote a book with Philip Yancey entitled Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Paul Brand was a hand surgeon who pioneered hand reconstructive surgery with
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Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear (Matthew 13:16, ESV). I read a sermon once with this quote, “Stop seeking mental health in the mirror of self-analysis, but instead drink in the remedies of God in nature.” Not to demean counseling, but too many of us spend time in
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Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it (Psalm 139:14, NLT). After one of my many youthful indiscretions, my mother said, “Use your entire brain, Grant!” A teacher told me after one of my high school pranks, “Sometimes you need to use the other half of your
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For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:19, ESV). In this one verse – Romans 8:19 – the Apostle Paul summarizes what our attitude toward the environment should be. I’ve been a part of conservative theology my entire life. Often, I get the implication from believers’ comments
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:2). In reading a book, every now and again, I come across a chapter in which I’m so enthralled that most of the chapter gets marked in yellow. I then lose the emphasis, so I mark some paragraphs in blue and others in orange
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. And the Light shines in the
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