Building Faith & Counting Costs: The Cost of Discipleship in a Society that Takes Faith for Granted

  By David Brown  For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28) In his excellent commentary on Luke’s Gospel New Testament scholar David E. Garland wrote: “ Many who come to …

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15 Quotes from The Things of Earth by Joe Rigney

By Evan Knies Joe Rigney is assistant professor of theology at Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can purchase The Things of Earth here. Earthly blessings are the necessary sign of God's favor toward us, so we seek them above all and seek him for their sake (pg. 23). The things of earth are …

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