January 22, 2002
To place ourselves in range of God's choicest gifts, we have to walk with God, work with God, lean on God, cling to God, come to have the sense and feel of God, refer all things to God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
January 25, 2003
We know the excitement of getting a present- we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children they are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
March 23, 2003
Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
May 31, 2003
The challenge of hospitality, both personally and professionally, comes when we are stressed out or tired and we offer it grudgingly. The gift of hospitality comes when we find in the welcoming face of hospitality the welcoming face of God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
November 19, 2003
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful "in general." It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
June 25, 2005
Faith in the sheltering wings of God does not remove physical danger or the need for precaution against it. We cannot ignore Beirut tourist advisories, or feed wild animals on our camping trips, or jump a hot motorcycle over a row of parked cars and trust God to keep us safe. We cannot smoke cigarettes like the Marlboro man and then claim the promises of Psalm 91 as our protection against lung cancer. A person who did these things would be a foolish believer and a foolish reader of Psalm 91.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
January 31, 2006
A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
April 14, 2007
Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so too speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
October 16, 2008
Saints and martyrs are famous for testifying to the truth about Jesus Christ while their enemies set them on fire, but each day ordinary Christians experience small martyrdoms when they blow the whistle on a dangerous product, or lose a friend they had to confront, or stand up in a small group and, for the first time in their lives, say to a group of strangers,"My name is Maxine, and I am an alcoholic."
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
February 7, 2010
To place ourselves in range of God's choicest gifts, we have to walk with God, work with God, lean on God, cling to God, come to have the sense and feel of God, refer all things to God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
February 16, 2011
Sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and stiff neck. Sin is blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it - both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a beast crouching at the door. In sin, people attack or evade or neglect their divine calling. These and other images suggest deviance; even when it is familiar, sin is never normal...Above all, sin disrupts and resists the vital human relation to God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
September 11, 2011
If the children of God were always saved from floods like believing Noah and his family; if every time somebody pointed a gun at a Christian, the gun just turned to salami; if we really had a money-back guarantee against hatred, disease, and the acts of terrorists, then of course we wouldn't have to worry about church growth. Our churches would fill with people attracted to the faith for secondary reasons. These are people who want an insurance agent, not a church.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
March 16, 2012
The awareness of sin used to be our shadow, Christians hated sin, feared it, flew from it. But now the shadow has faded. Nowadays, the accusation you have sinned is often said with a grin.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
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