“To recall an image of John Calvin, the preacher is someone the church sends to the Bible week by week to dig up part of its treasure and bring it to us in the Sunday sermon. The” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable,” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the preacher is hoping to acquire from her reading what I call “middle wisdom.” Let’s say that middle wisdom consists of insights into… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“To recall an image of John Calvin, the preacher is someone the church sends to the Bible week by week to dig up part… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“On Thanksgiving Day, 2011, my pastor Peter Jonker preached a marvelous sermon on Psalm 65 with an introduction from the life of Seth MacFarlane,… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image