Greg Lucas has written many encouraging and touching reflections about being a father to Jake, his profoundly disabled son (now aged 18). None have been more poignant than this. My face seems to be scarred these days with the dried and salty tear tracks of weary frustration. I cry more than people know—more than a …
From time to time the vague (and sometimes even forceful) suggestion that Jesus didn’t really exist pops up. John Dickson writes an article, published online at ABC’s Religion and Ethics portal in which he contends: There are, of course, some forceful arguments against Christian belief – the problem of miracles or alternative religions, the existence …
Advent marks the Christian new year. Given that most of us feel like we’re dragging ourselves toward the finish line of year’s end, Christmas (holidays for some), and then January, the expectancy of Jesus’ first and second comings should energise with the stamina of those just beginning, not those longing for the end. Come Thou …
What does Who Is This Man? (John Ortberg, Zondervan Publishers, 2012) promise? John Ortberg seeks to identify and explain the influence of Jesus upon the history and culture of the world over the last two thousand years. What I liked. Ortberg is a superb communicator. Based upon a series of sermons, this material transposes to …
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