Matt Perman offers a very relevant appraisal of the difference between Relief and Development aid, and then provides an important spiritual application as well. In both cases, the goal is to help the person back to self-sufficiency. But the strategies in each case are different — often profoundly so. Relief The goal of relief is …
It’s time for John Newton’s Glorious Things Of The Are Spoken to be posted here. Though nowhere near as popularly known as Amazing Grace, this set of lyrics abound with Scriptural allusion providing a veritable biblical theology of God’s eternal purpose to save and preserve for Himself a people to the glory of His name. …
Tullian Tchividjian reminds us again that we don’t read the Bible to be inspired by heroes to emulate in order to know the blessings of God, but instead we seek to learn how those in our hall of fame responded to the grace they were shown. “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the …
Mockingbird blog has posted this devotional on John 5:5-8, where Jesus encounters a paralytic by a pool, and why an enquiry about wanting to be made well is neither callous or obtuse, but rather a penetrating means by which the man is challenged to set aside preconceptions which were both hindering and harmful. A central …
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