What is man?
‘A great admiration rises upon me; astonishment seizes me.’ Augustine. “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” (Jeremiah 17:10, ESV). The word…
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The city of God
The front page headline yesterday proclaimed: ‘Pride and Prejudice’. But where did the prejudice lie? Our city has rejected ‘the narrow door’ ( Luke 13:24) and the paper was proudly displaying its colours. We live in sad times in our…
Augustine’s Question
Augustine asked God, ‘What am I to you that you command me to love you, and that, if I fail to love you, you are angry with me and threaten me with vast miseries?” (Quoted by Ray Ortlund, Proverbs, p…