Chuck Colson: A Life Remembered
A Message from Helwys Society Forum Evangelicalism in America experienced a great loss just one week ago. Born on October 16, 1931, Charles “Chuck” W. Colson passed away at the age of 80 on April 21, 2012. Many Christians in America know Colson for his years of educating and equipping believers to confront the moral decay growing within many intellectual, social, and cultural institutions. Yet it was Colson’s own pre-conversion life...
Christianity and Creation Care: An Interview with Matthew Bracey
The Scriptures call believers to be stewards, not only of money and talents, but of the earth too. Christians through history have affirmed this: Just consider St. Francis of Assisi’s celebrated hymn, “All Creatures of Our God and King.” Yet today we typically associate such concern with the political left. Nevertheless, in recent years Christian thinkers have called our attention to a biblical theology of creation. The Helwys Society...
A Gracious Hope: Isaiah’s Biblical Theology of Creation
Good authors know how to weave important themes throughout the tapestry of their texts. For example, Homer does this masterfully with honor and respect in the Iliad (ca. 1194-84 bc), Augustine with citizenship and heaven in City of God (ca. 413-26), Chaucer with religion and social class in The Canterbury Tales (ca. late-1380s), and Hawthorne with sin and legalism in The Scarlet Letter (1850). How much more reliable is this truism...
Why Being In the Flesh Is a Good Thing
We all have hobbies: cooking, film, photography, reading, sports, and many others. People who know me know that one of mine is running. However, this hasn’t always been the case. In the fall of 2009, God began to convict me about the increase in my eating and the decrease in my exercising. This conviction climaxed that Christmas when I realized that I had gained nearly 30 pounds in the previous year. “Am I really honoring God with my...
Reclaiming the Spirit
Jesus stated the following concerning the Holy Spirit: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever… [T]he Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you” (Jn. 14:16, 26). Jesus’ words notwithstanding, many of us know little about the Holy Spirit. If Baptists talk about Him at all, it is...
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