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How Can God's War Against Satan be a "Real War" if God is Omnipotent?

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It can sometimes be hard to see how God’s war against evil and Satan is a “real war,” given that evil is clearly outmatched (since God is omnipotent). It’s like when I wrestle with my two-year-old: there’s no way he can win. And, of course, there is indeed no way evil can win. But it’s […]

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Does God Care if Tim Tebow Wins?

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My friend Owen Strachan has a great article in the Atlantic this week on whether God cares if Tim Tebow wins on Saturday. The gist: This question is answered by the doctrine of providence. Yes, God does care. God cares about and governs everything, even the death of a sparrow. But does this mean that […]

What Happens When NGOs Admit Failure?

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This is a very insightful TED talk by David Damberger. Here’s the summary: International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps. One of the most significant […]

Jesus is Not an Angel

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How angels respond to worship: And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep […]

It's Not Enough to Do Good

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You have to be mindful of God in the good that you do. “Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good” (1 Peter 4:19). “For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly” (1 Peter 2:19). “Let […]

Cuts from the Book, 1: Sorrow _And Sighing_ Will Flee Away

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In writing my book, I actually ended up laying the groundwork for about 4 other books as well. I didn’t set out to do that, but I found that seeing the things I wanted to say over the next few years from the perspective of the whole enabled me to make this book better. Thus, […]

The Character of a True Theologian

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I dusted off again recently Herman Witsius’s excellent essay “On the Character of a True Theologian.” As you can tell from the title, his emphasis is that a theologian is first a person of character, who loves God and believes what he teaches. Here’s one of the best paragraphs: By a theologian, I mean one […]