Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60036. Expressive individualism is the water our culture swims in, and like all water it is hardest to notice when you are soaked in it. It is the conviction that each of us carries an authentic inner self, that the highest good is to discover and express that self, and that anything which restrains…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7047. Being in Christ is Paul’s favourite way of describing a Christian, and I suspect most of us read straight past it. He uses the phrase, or one of its near relatives, more than a hundred and sixty times. He does not usually call people Christians. He calls them those who are in Christ…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7046. Union with Christ is the doctrine that a believer is not simply forgiven by Jesus and helped by Jesus but is genuinely joined to Him, so that what is true of Him becomes true of those who belong to Him. It is the least discussed and, I would argue, the most far-reaching of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6044. When Paul speaks of the old man he is not describing a sinister lodger who lives in the believer’s spare room. He is describing the person you used to be, considered as a whole, in Adam and under condemnation. Getting that right changes a great deal about how the Christian life is fought,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 05044. The relationship between brain and soul becomes intensely practical the day someone you love starts to disappear behind dementia, a stroke, or a brain injury. The face is familiar, the body is present, and yet memory, personality, and recognition seem to be draining away. What is actually happening to the person? Is the…