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, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. - David F. Wells
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
- David F. Wells
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 … - David F. Wells
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 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 … - David F. Wells
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,… - David F. Wells
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,…
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… - David F. Wells
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…
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrele… - David F. Wells
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrele…
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 … - David F. Wells
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 …
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. - David F. Wells
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
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… - David F. Wells
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…
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