In his recent post, “Stop Calling Faithfulness a Sacrifice,” Stephen Kneale offers a counter-argument to a common attitude toward living the Christian life. Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 17:10 that, having obeyed God’s commands, we are still “unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.” As …
Please take the time to read Carl R. Trueman’s recent article in First Things, “The Age of Ingratitude.” Mr. Trueman teaches biblical and religious studies at Grove City College and is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, an institute applying the riches of the Judeo-Christian tradition to …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “The Unique Greatness of Our God (Part Five),” on February 4, 2011. “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” —Psalm 8:4 We realize that all our attempts to describe an infinite God are woefully …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Evil Is Real (Part Four),” on September 17, 2010. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” —Jeremiah 17:9 Jesus, speaking in Mark 7 about defilement originating within us, lists several of the evils He wants us to overcome …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Beating the Rat Race (Part Two),” on June 4, 2010. “Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.” —Psalm 4:4 Our society runs at a frantic pace. Being so enmeshed in it, we often find it …
This essay first appeared in CGG Weekly on April 28, 2006, as “The Alien Who Is Among You.” “One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” —Exodus 12:49 Over the past several weeks, the big story has been illegal immigration. Supposedly, about twelve …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Coveting and the Roots of Sin,” on July 30, 2021. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” —Exodus …
This essay, originally titled “Inured, Calloused, Apathetic,” appeared in the CGG Weekly on August 22, 2003. “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within …
