I accept that no one is free from error, and yet I want to assert that human frailty is not an excuse to resist submission to those in positions of authority. As I see it, our submission is not most essentially to the person in authority, who is frail and fallen, but to the gift [...]

I imagine that God is pleased when we creatively apply the Gospel to the specific conditions of our lives. The Scriptures do not give us an exhaustive set of ethical rules to abide by. God apparently was silent on many issues, particularly ethical issues, that he could have spoken at length and in great detail [...]

The life we are called to live as followers of Jesus is supernatural, and not just a matter of natural human choice. The ethic of Jesus is at once beyond us and yet essential to who we are, for it is based upon the being of Jesus, which is anthropneumatic. Jesus is anthropneumatic insofar [...]

Only Jesus, who is fully God and fully human, is qualified to strip us of all that is false and fallen. Being God, all power and authority are his, and being human, he is able to intimately extend that power and authority within our own being without distorting or destroying our humanity, or our true [...]

Often the physical world provides a good analogy for understanding the spiritual. Just as physical laws dictate that between two celestial bodies the center of gravity is closer to the one that has greater mass, so it is in our relationship to God. We are creatures constituted in relation to Him, and He being infinite [...]

Christ, being the agent of creation and redemption, is both obstacle and mediator in the being and becoming of the world. It is through him that God called forth creation, and it is in him that we live, move, and have our being. Consequently, apart from him we cannot adequately understand or relate to the [...]