Author: Bo Parker
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Hebrews 11 Faith & Future
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Hebrews 11:13 I am struck by how “living by faith” has a future element. We are most excited about making things happen “by…
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Hebrews 11 “By Faith”
“but my righteous one shall live by faith” Heb 10:38 quoting from Hab 2:4 After two weeks off from blogging, I am beginning a series on Hebrews 11, the famous faith chapter in the Bible. I have been meditating in that chapter recently with the question, “What does it look like to live by faith?”…
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Certainty and Knowing God
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Jesus John 17:3 When Bible-believing churches want to convey what they believe, they will include a statement of faith. Some create their own statement, while others will point you to a historical statement of faith…
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Certainty and Mystery
What is the relationship between mystery and understanding in your mind? I can remember balking at the way some Christians waxed eloquently about embracing the mystery of the Christian faith. To me, mystery was something that I would never understand, which meant it was unknowable. So the mystery of God meant that I could not…
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Certainty and Work
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 2 Cor 4:7-9 We value certainty in our work. The more…
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Certainty and God’s Voice
For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. Jesus Jn 18:37 Christians believe in absolute truth and that Jesus came into the world to bear witness to the truth. We want to…
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Certainty and the Church
We believe that there is truth that matters, so being certain of that truth seems like it would be a good thing. People who celebrate uncertainty are sometimes people who want to use uncertainty as a license to live as they please. Even the most convincing or persuasive presentation of the truth about right and…
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Certainty and Biblical Truth
The more we view the Bible as the authoritative revelation of God and His purposes, the more we desire certainty about the Bible. This is not just certainty that the Bible is the word of God, but also we want to be certain about what is Biblically true. After all, this is what we are…
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Certainty and Covid
Covid has presented a challenge to our culture’s wrestling with the whole notion of truth. The post modern idea of relative truth does not work with something like Covid. We are not able to allow everyone to have their own truth (about how it spreads, how dangerous it is, the effectiveness of masks and vaccines,…
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Quest For Certainty
At the same conference where Frog Orr-Ewing talked about tree rings, his wife Amy spoke about the wider Western culture that she encounters in her work as an apologist and evangelist. She shared her sense that the relative truth perspective of post modern thought (the idea that there is no governing truth and everyone has…