In the course of my ministry, over the past decade or so, I have made mention on several occasions of a personally life-impacting book by David Wells titled, God in the Wasteland. In this work, Wells speaks of what he calls “the weightlessness of God.”
Everybody lives in submission to some authority, whether it be God, tradition, another person, a religion or self. In the words of Bob Dylan, “you gotta serve somebody.” Someone or something makes the rules by which you are inclined to live. And for the Christian,
It is nigh impossible to state any of the five solas in isolation. After all, if we hold to Scripture alone as our final and all-sufficient authority for all that we believe and do, we are immediately confronted with the question, what are to believe
In the hymn “Rock of Ages,” Augustus Toplady wonderfully pictures what it means to come to Christ. At one point he writes, “Nothing in my hand I bring / simply to the cross I cling.” In a more modern hymn, Charitie Lees Bancroft writes, Before
