Occupation: Theologian Birth: January 23, 1953
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters h….
Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven..
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end o….
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something….
The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more lik….
For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multi….
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with….
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive i….
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish..
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it..
Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God..
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take th….
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone..
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need t….
Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too grea….
Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue….
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that….
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through gra….
We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven..
The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is,….
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing..