Everything New

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] How can we summarize what God means when he tells us he simply is? When Moses asked God what his name was (for there were many alternative names for gods), God’s answer was, “I AM WHO I AM.” This […]

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Have you found that the longer you live, the more you realize your own finitude? Perhaps you used to think you could accomplish anything, but you’ve grown to realize you can do what God has enabled you to do

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Jesus said, “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] God is great; God is good; and we thank him for our food. Amen. I must have spoken those simple words hundreds of times at the dinner table when I was a child, but I most certainly did not

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Martin Luther was adamant that our knowledge of God must be based on a “theology of the cross.” That is, we know God not by ascending to where he is, but by looking upon he who has come to

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] The so-called “special revelation” that God gives includes Jesus Christ himself, the Word that was from the beginning and was with God and was God. Jesus put it this way: “If you have seen me you have seen the

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Revelation is God himself speaking loudly and clearly about who he is and how he views the world; it is our responsibility to listen clearly. He speaks because he wants to be known. Imagine that–God wants to be known!

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] “When I was young, I said to God, God, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Providence is true because of God’s character. It is his nature that defines his relationship with everything that he made. The piece of your faith that says God is good lines up with the piece that says that life

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Here’s a word from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount that we would do well to ponder within the first waking hour of every day: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When I finished college I took a third-shift job working as a nursing assistant in a nursing home. My wife, who was training as a social worker, suggested that one of the best ways I could prepare to be

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] So there is one person, with two aspects, but with many functions. Here is where we get a refined view of who we really are. The rich biblical vocabulary about human nature describes the dynamics of our inner life

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] If someone were to ask you, “Who are you, really?” a complete answer would have to include something about the invisible you, the part within and apart from the body. One of the truest things you can say about

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Why do bad things happen to innocent people? Is there any purpose in it all? Here is where the issue stings. If I have to suffer, is it all for nothing? Must I pay such a high price for

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Suffering is often the direct result of the sinful things humans do to each other. The first murder occurred just four chapters into the Bible. What’s worse is that it was a brother killing his own brother. Why did