The author of Hebrews writes, “the Lord disciplines the one He loves” (12:6). The word “discipline” in the Greek is paideuō, a verb whose primary meaning is to train up, or educate, a child. Its secondary meaning is to chastise or correct. Like a parent or a teacher, the Lord instructs and corrects the ones […]
Even in rhetoric, it all comes down to The Way of Repentance. What is this Way? One might look at it a number of different ways. Here is one: it is leaving behind the voices and anxieties and vainglories that crowd our minds and souls to enter His silence and peace. Here is another: Suppose
Christians may find it comforting to look at the “world” around them and approach it with fear, believing that the troubles Christendom encounters come from that world. For example, the divorce rate among Christians is too high, and that is because we let “the world” influence us too much, or higher criticism has infected the
At last week’s conference, the single point I was hoping to grasp and communicate was this: Only the spiritual man is able to judge all things. Since the conference was on judgment, that struck me as a significant truth. Most assessments in our world (of children’s behavior, of employee performance, of student work, of intellectual
