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Give Praise to God
*As a teenager attending a theology conference, Mike Horton walked up to James Montgomery Boice, an influential pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and said, “Dr. Boice, I want to be a reformer like you.” That moment in the late ’70s […]*
“Behold the Man!”: Why Jesus Makes Us Uncomfortable
“So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, ‘Behold the man!'” (John 19:5) Pilate says more here than he realizes. We can understand when Peter, astonished and overwhelmed at Jesus’ control over the storm, exclaims, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man” (Luke 5:8). […]
The Great Commission from Genesis to Revelation
From the beginning, human beings were created to be disciples—that is, devoted followers of our Creator who listen to his word and reflect his character in the world. We were commissioned to make more disciples, too, through being fruitful and multiplying (Gen. 1:28). […]
A Brief History of Enthusiasm
The literal meaning of *enthusiasmos* in Greek is “god-within-ism.” According to the ancients, the highest state of the soul’s enlightenment lies beyond sense experience and even reason. This achievement of unspoken union with the divine within is called *gnosis*, unmediated knowledge. […]
Head and Heart
Throughout church history, many have tried to identify the one mysterious thing within us that makes us truly human. Often, that special thing has been identified as our soul or even a specific capacity of the soul. Medieval schools debated which capacity […]
