Occupation: Professor Birth: 1939
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those ….
What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was h….
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty wo….
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace i….
Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Hum….
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrele….
God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin ….
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today,….
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it p….
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theolog….
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes..
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?.
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen ….
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil..