The Longing
Stuff that didn't quite make it into The Briefing
Did S11 make a difference?
Phillip Jensen / September 2002
It was the end of my first year at University. Having risen early to study, I turned on the radio and heard the news. I remember wondering whether to wake my parents and tell them, but it was such shocking news I decided that they had to know. So I went in and told them of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
It seemed to be a day in which the world changed, but it was not the first assassination of an American president and within a few years we were to see the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. And life went
The fear of God: Talking with Jerry Bridges
Peter Hastie / September 2002
Jerry Bridges is the author of The Pursuit of Holiness, The Practice of Godliness, True Fellowship, Trusting God, Transforming Grace and The Joy of Fearing God. He has a close association with the ministry of The Navigators and lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
The Psalmist complains that we have an all-too-human view of God (Ps 50:21).To what extent are wrong ideas of God at the root of our spiritual problems?
I think that our basic problem is that we try to scale God down to our size. And because we think God is like us, we do not