The hymn we sing at Christmas anticipates joy when Christ comes the second time---when the kingdom he established at his first coming will be consummated as the reality we will live in forever.
Author Archives: Nancy Guthrie
What Do You Mean When You Talk about Christ in the Old Testament?
May 31, 2011 – 5:00 AM
A couple of weeks ago I was preparing to speak to a small women’s group about seeing Christ in the Old Testament. I intended to set the scene with Jesus’ words on the road to Emmaus found in Luke 24, and to illustrate what I meant using numerous examples in the Old Testament. But as [...]
I'm Happy
March 2, 2011 – 7:18 PM
Nearly 900 women have registered to attend The Gospel Coalition national conference in Chicago in April, and that makes me really happy. I’m happy because for a while it seemed to me that there wasn’t a place for me at the gospel-centered conferences that interested me as a woman who wants to grow in my [...]
I Have a Voice
February 25, 2011 – 5:00 AM
At the climax of the movie The King’s Speech, King George VI is finally goaded by his unconventional speech therapist into declaring, “I have a voice!” —a turning point in his battle to overcome stuttering and effectively lead his country in wartime. I suppose there is a sense in which we all have to discover [...]
An Open Letter to My Pastors on Glenn Beck
September 27, 2010 – 8:00 AM
Dear Pastors Benton, Filson, and Teller: I know it has been a few weeks now since the big Glenn Beck rally in Washington. Most of the conversation about it has centered on Beck's Mormon faith. But that is not what prompts me to write to you. What prompts me to write is a statement Beck [...]
I Am an 'Atonement Gal'
September 23, 2010 – 9:00 AM
Recently a woman I have worked with in Christian publishing for more than 25 years died, and I went to her funeral. I always knew this friend was never quite comfortable with the lines many of the authors she worked with drew around biblical faith. But I didn’t know until the funeral how far outside [...]
The Only Hope For LOST People
March 26, 2010 – 10:59 AM
Though my husband and I are still hanging on to see where the television show LOST eventually takes us, we make no claims to understand what is happening week to week. But clearly as the series is coming to and end, there is a struggle between good and evil, life and death, and questions about [...]
He Holds the Keys to Death
March 1, 2010 – 11:28 AM
“I have wanted to believe that my son’s death caught God by surprise,” she said through tears. “But now I realize he was not surprised at all.” She and her husband had come to our most recent Respite Retreat, a retreat for couples who have faced the death of a child, and we had just finished discussing Jesus’ words about himself in Revelation 1:18, “I hold the keys of death and the grave.” In other words, no one goes through the door of death unless and until he opens that door.
How Could God Ask That?
In our Sunday school class circle we were discussing Genesis 22, the account of God coming to Abraham and telling him to take his beloved son, Isaac, and offer him as a sacrifice. “I have always struggled with this story,” one man in the class said. “I just can’t understand how God could ask Abraham [...]