Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato’s safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the...

We owe God a “double debt” incurred by our passive receipt of Adam’s debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a “daring debt” because...

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth…Don’t you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan...

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.