I'm Isaiah, a citizen of Christendom.

Wherein I plagiarize the resolutions Jonathan Edwards made for himself as a teenager, in the hope that they might have, to some small degree, the same effect on my life that they clearly had on his.

You are never going to wake up one day and decide that you have had enough of God. That you have had your fill of God. Thus, would it not be equally true if Solomon had written, “Whoever loves God never has enough of him”?

It's not surprising that there is no shortage of theories about the atonement. But do we have to pick just one theory, or can we accept some or all of them?

Do we have free will? Did I choose my breakfast this morning? Did I choose to write this? Do we choose God? Do we decide our eternal fate? Here are few things that I believe to be true.

Our affections matter. I mean our deepest desires. Our most lofty ambitions. But how can we evaluate our affections to keep Christ at the center? I propose one possible way to test our affections.

So what’s eternal life? The whole reason Jesus took on flesh and endured the Cross was so that we might obtain this eternal life — so what is it? What is this great hope that Jesus promises to everyone who believes in him? A few thoughts.