CGG Weekly published this essay, “God Has Not Called the Atheist,” on March 9, 2024. “And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.” —Acts 13:48 I recently had a social media encounter with three authors whose works I have read extensively. They reacted to a C.S. Lewis …
CGG Weekly publish this essay, “One Choice,” on February 10, 2023. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” —Deuteronomy 30:19 Western civilization is fixated …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Called to Follow,” was first published on Friday, June 13, 2014. “Then He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’” —Matthew 4:19 If there is one great principle of Christian living, it is walking in Christ’s footsteps (I John 2:6). …
This essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part One),” first appeared in CGG Weekly on March 4, 2011. “He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” —I John 2:4 In most American presidential campaigns, candidates for that …
I wrote this essay, “Wisdom for the Young (Part Five),” for CGG Weekly on November 26, 2010. “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD . . .” —Isaiah 51:1 How does a young person seek God? Some people, having grown up in certain evangelical circles, …
I wrote “Death Is Not the End (Part Six)” for CGG Weekly on April 16, 2010. “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.” —Isaiah 65:17 Previously, we learned about the general resurrection, when tens of billions …
I wrote this essay, “Big-Picture Thinking,” for the CGG Weekly on January 5, 2007. “Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself . . .?” —Numbers 16:9 As we flip our Gregorian …
Originally “We Persuade Men,” this CGG Weekly essay first appeared on July 12, 2002. “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. . . .” —II Corinthians 5:11 The apostle Paul writes in II Corinthians 5:9-11: Therefore we make it our aim . . . to be well pleasing …
