Author Archives: R.C. Sproul, Jr.
Is God Happy When We’re Happy?
Is it true, as some say, that “God is happy when we are happy?”
Of course. God, however, is also happy when we are sad. He’s happy when we are frightened, when we are disappointed, when we are hungry and when our foot falls asleep. Go… Continue reading
Sending My Thoughts Your Way
I seek to be a professional persuader. Though I am much less pushy in my more private life, my profession is to profess my confession. Sometimes I am given a classroom of students. Sometimes I am given a sanctuary of sheep. I seek to persuade rea… Continue reading
5 Things I’m Surprised I Can’t Find in the Bible
God is all and only wisdom, the very font of all truth. The Bible is His Word, and is true in all that it teaches, as well as sufficient to guide us into every good work. His Word is perspicuous, that is clear, and understandable. Not all of the … Continue reading
The Culture Culture
The Bible teaches, from Genesis 3 onward, the antithesis. Antithesis is a rather fancy theological term that simply affirms that the people of God live their lives in the context of the battle between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. … Continue reading
Outrage Du Jour
Media, as a general rule, is directed more toward our emotions than our minds. As Neil Postman argued so eloquently in his delightful book Amusing Ourselves to Death, a word based culture tends to be more reasoned, more thoughtful, whereas an image bas… Continue reading
What is the Purpose of a College Education?
One of the great dangers of our industrialized view of education, wherein we view our children as raw material that are moved along a conveyer belt until they come out the other side educated widgets, is that it bifurcates our lives. We are, in this vi… Continue reading
Go, Stand, Speak
We know more than we let on. So Paul tells us in Romans 1. Still our conclusions are not the fruit of careful, dispassionate reasoning. Motives mix up our minds, and too often we end up believing not what we know but what we want to believe. Which is o… Continue reading