Composer and Score

An awe for the composer, God, is necessary before a pastor can fully understand his score, the Bible.

Love Is Not Luv

Love should cast out terror, but not awe. True love must include awe. This is one of the great truths about sex and marriage that our age has tragically ...

What Makes Worship Meaningful

Ultimately transcendence is what makes a worship service meaningful.

Wonder Brings Morality

In Bill Moyers's book A World of Ideas II, Jacob Needleman remembers, "I was an observer at the launch of Apollo 17 in 1975. It was a night launch, and ...

What Kids Can't Appreciate

In 1997, Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was invited to give the annual Lindbergh Address at the Smithsonian Institution's Air ...

Realizing the Miracle of Life

When Emily Webb, in Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, comes back from the dead to the town of her childhood and finds her mother and father and all her ...

Holiness in Creation

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes— The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. ...

Tension of Loving and Fearing God

Jerry Bridges, in his book The Joy of Fearing God, describes the healthy tension between loving and fearing God:

In the physical realm there are two opposing ...

Teddy Roosevelt's Humility Before Creator

President Theodore Roosevelt's love of the outdoors is well documented. He was responsible for the creation of several national parks and monuments. In ...