Yielding To Christianity

Patricia Hofer

The burden of “self-effort” and “self-dependence”

Although they may not always admit it, trusting isn’t easy for Christians. During the first half of my life, I was constantly scrambling, trying to find ways to prop up my believing. … And that’s why Hannah Whitall Smith’s writing can be so helpful. She, too, was searching for a more secure and confident faith. That led her to become first a member and then a leader of the 19th century Holiness Movement. Its strict… Continue reading

God is not “a featureless generality”

“It is clear that there never was a time when nothing existed; otherwise nothing would exist now. But to exist means to be a positive Something, to have (metaphorically) a certain shape or structure, to be this and not that. The Thing which always existed, namely God, has therefore always had His own positive character…. God is basic Fact or Actuality, the source of all other facthood. At all costs therefore He must not be… Continue reading

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