This passage pretty well sums up the thrust of The Kingdom Has Drawn Near, and hearing these sermons in person caused a paradigm shift in my thinking.
But – have you thought of this? – Adam would also have loved God just by being a great gardener! I get excited thinking about this. As Adam went [...]

Last night, some friends and I were enjoying the late spring night while discussing the current economic situation.  One fellow was lamenting the loss of manufacturing jobs to countries like Mexico and China, jobs that created the middle class of this country not too long ago.  America is becoming less and less a nation that [...]

This week I began reading Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson’s Angels In The Architecture for a small group study.  Previously we had read Plowing In Hope: Towards a Christian Theology of Culture by Bruce Hegeman, which, while I did not agree with everything the author postulated, I found to be very helpful and thought provoking.  [...]

I have been enjoying Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society recently.  In the first essay, Philosophy Of Religion (Faith), Bavinck addresses the philosophies of Kant and Rousseau, and the effects of the mystical/rational dichotomy found therein:
However, all these orientations, the ethical and mystical as well as the speculative, suffer from a significant one-sidedness.  [...]