Always Reforming

Finishing a long book can be so bittersweet.  If you're like me, you feel accomplished and edified, but you also feel a little sad.  If it was a good book, you may have grown accustomed to the sight and smell of its pages, and closing it for the final time feels like saying goodbye to an old friend.  This is particularly true when the book is as powerful as Stephen Charnock's classic work,  The Existence & Attributes of God .  Today I am going to tell you why you, and every Christian, should read this book. I remember being a young boy and seeing this book sitting on my father's bookshelf.  It seemed so daunting, so out of reach.  I wasn't much of a reader until I reached my 20s, so a book of 1130 pages seemed unattainable, especially a book of such depth and archaic language.  When my father recently discovered that he had an extra, unopened copy, I was quick to claim it.  I started working my way through it sometime last year.  I...

Theology, once known as the queen of the sciences, has a long history of big words and subtle distinctions, and while Christianity shares in this heritage, she has always maintained that the Gospel is ultimately quite simple.  There are many who love to discuss the complexities of theology, and those things have their place, but the wonder of the Gospel is its simplicity.  The beauty of the Gospel is that it can be comprehended and obeyed as equally by the pauper as by the prince.  The Gospel is the  great equalizer in the Universe, rendering all men equal before God regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, social status, or academic erudition.  The seminary professor may know more about God and the Scriptures, but that does not mean that his grasp on the Gospel and His walk with God are deeper or more genuine than the pupil in his classroom. The Apostle John provides a concise summary of the Gospel in 1 John 3:23.  He says, "And this is His commandment, tha...