“Meeting” – Some thoughts for you

So, I’ve decided to start writing a short story each month. I was really struggling with trusting God and trusting others on December 27^th and 28^th, so I wrote the following sentences down, intending it to be me: “The snow fell around him, causing him to shiver in the early evening as he trudged through the powder. Every now and then he slipped, the ice on the sidewalk making his journey treacherous.”

Thus began my story “Meeting,” which quickly took a much different route than I had originally planned. The link to it is http://lilwritr.blogspot.com/2016/01/meeting.html. I wrote a good portion of it at Starbucks on the 29^th, the day I ran into the Jehovah’s Witness, so after chatting with him, I was totally decided on the route the story would take. A guy who doesn’t know the Lord, who’s really down on his luck, runs into a believer. What would his response look like? What should the believer’s response look like?

So, what resulted was an eight page character sketch, a thirteen page conversation, and a two page conclusion. My focus was trying to invent a character out of my brain, someone I’d never met before, whose situation is very opposite of mine. I kept our genders the same, but otherwise he is very different from me: Bobby Jones. I made the believer character, Jay, modeled on how I would like to see myself interacting with a non-believer, something that I would love to make more of a regular part of my own life.

I fall far short of the “Jay” I invented, but his progression is currently being worked out in my novel Stranded, and the two sequels that follow in the Awakening series. If this story was to become part of that series, it would end up in book three. The story takes place approximately a year from today.

Before moving on, the fact that Jay orders a beer is not promoting that industry. Everyone makes mistakes, and Jay is not perfect; in a moment of weakness he made a decision that could have cost a potential convert.

So what are we to learn from this story? I think there are at least two lessons.

First, we need to meet unbelievers where they are. Jay didn’t start in on biblical themes. He got to know Bobby. He also shared his own life with Bobby. There’s no better way to find common ground with an unbeliever than to just be honest with them. If we act holier-than-thou we will never impact them, but if we tell them about ourselves, and if we seek to understand them, then our attempts could very well be rewarded with a good response. However, at the same time, another place the Bobby character really was, was suspended over hell. We have to meet unbelievers even here and beg them to trust Christ, warning them of their plight. And given all the direct thoughts of Bobby, given in italics, I tried to show that the Spirit is at work on his mind, impressing things on him that Jay didn’t even explicitly say. Our job is to meet them where they are and be totally honest with them, both about our lives and their plight, and trust the Holy Spirit to do His convicting and regenerating work. God is very good at being God.

Finally, a reason this story took the route it did was because I’ve long wanted to explore the phrase, “Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.” This story gives some insight into my thoughts on that topic. Allow me to preach briefly on it here. That phrase is normally used, I feel at least, to get people off the hook about their apathy towards spiritual disciplines and other such things. This is not at all the case. Religion is dead ritual. Relationship is vibrant, changing, struggle to maintain, desire to maintain, mutual give-and-take that produces all sorts of emotion. If a relationship is set aside, it dies. To say that Christianity is a relationship and not a religion, is to raise the bar for how we act in Christianity.

John 13:34-35 says, “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.  By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (HCSB). This is further defined in Matthew 22:37-39: “He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the greatest and most important command.  The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself’ ” (HCSB). We are to love Jesus with everything we are, and we do this by loving other humans, both the saved and the non-saved.

Let’s seek to meet people where they are, tell them the truth, and thus prove that we love God with everything that we are!

Soli Deo Gloria.

An Unexpected Gospel Analogy

As a pastor-/preacher-in-training, I really enjoy taking random things and turning them into a way to proclaim the gospel. Whether it’s an eraser of a pencil: we write our sins, God flips it and erases them; or a cup of coffee: when it’s internalized, it awakes you to your situation; or a napkin: they’re typically white (Jesus is pure) and they clean up our messes (Jesus sure does for us). Regardless of the item, there is usually some way to tie it to Christ and the gospel. They will all ultimately fall short, but since Christ wants to be found, He doesn’t make it hard to find Him. I would like to demonstrate this in some depth through the song “How to Love” by lil Wayne, off his album Tha Carter IV . The lyrics have been copied below, and bold type represents the hook (chorus, refrain, whatever) to differentiate it from the other sections. Also, any profanity has been replaced with a weaker word within [brackets].

You had a lot of crooks try'na steal your heart

Never really had luck, couldn't never figure out

How to love (how to love)

How to love (how to love)

Mm you had a lot of moments that didn't last forever

Now you in the corner try'na put it together

How to love (how to love)

How to love (how to love)

Mm for a second you were here, now you over there

It's hard not to stare, the way you moving your body

Like you never had a love (had a love)

Never had love (had a love)

When you was just a youngin', your looks were so precious

But now your grown up, so fly it's like a blessing

But you, can't have a man look at you for five seconds

Without you being insecure

You never credit yourself so when you got older

It's seems like you came back ten times over

Now you're sitting here in this [dang] corner

Looking through all your thoughts and looking over your shoulder

Hook

Mm for a second you were here, now you over there

It's hard not to stare, the way you moving your body

Like you never had a love (had a love)

How to love (how to love)

Ooh, you had a lot of dreams that transform to visions

The fact that you saw the world affected all your decisions

But it wasn't your fault, wasn't in your intentions

To be the one here talking to me, be the one listening

But I admire your poppin' bottles and dippin'

Just as much as you admire bartending and strippin'

Baby, so don't be mad, nobody else trippin'

You see a lot of crooks and the crooks still crook

Hook

Ooh, see I just want you to know (You to know)

That you deserve the best

You're beautiful, you're beautiful

Yeah, and I want you to know

You're far from the usual, far from the usual

Hook 2x

In order to properly dissect this song to see the gospel beneath it, we need to look at three different portions: first, the hook; second, the verses; and third, the bridge.

The hook reads as follows:

You had a lot of crooks try'na steal your heart

Never really had luck, couldn't never figure out

How to love (how to love)

How to love (how to love)

Mm you had a lot of moments that didn't last forever

Now you in the corner try'na put it together

How to love (how to love)

How to love (how to love)

The first thing to recognize, is that to get the most out of this song, we have to get past our fears and concede that for the allegory being shared Wayne is speaking as if he played a character who is God (I know it’s a hard bridge to cross, but it makes this song mean a whole lot more if we can do this). With this understanding, the meaning is relatively clear in the hook.

We are seduced by everything in this world. Nothing is not trying to earn our time and affections. However, none of those things satisfy in the end. We think they contain love, fulfillment, happiness, but we are sadly disappointed every time. The things we think will satisfy us for eternity are fleeting, and leave us with more questions and hurts than we really want to admit. It seems our whole lives are a search for love.

This leads to the verses. The first verse reads as follows:

When you was just a youngin', your looks were so precious

But now your grown up, so fly it's like a blessing

But you, can't have a man look at you for five seconds

Without you being insecure

You never credit yourself so when you got older

It's seems like you came back ten times over

Now you're sitting here in this [dang] corner

Looking through all your thoughts and looking over your shoulder

The first line could easily be—especially if it was a Christian writing—a reference to Ezekiel 16:6-14 which is itself a parable of Israel’s apostasy from God toward lesser things. This is what we are too prone to do. We take the gifts that God has given us and turn them into ways to spurn His glory and grace. The girl in the song that Wayne is talking about has flirted around with many different men—using her looks for whatever she can—and now she only finds worth around another man; they’ve made her insecure, because she finds her worth in them. She knows the cycle, but she doesn’t know how to escape. She questions her thoughts and she questions those around her.

The second verse continues the story. It says:

Ooh, you had a lot of dreams that transform to visions

The fact that you saw the world affected all your decisions

But it wasn't your fault, wasn't in your intentions

To be the one here talking to me, be the one listening

But I admire your poppin' bottles and dippin'

Just as much as you admire bartending and strippin'

Baby, so don't be mad, nobody else trippin'

You see a lot of crooks and the crooks still crook

This girl haad big plans for her life. We all do. Childhood is where we dream big. “I want to be an astronaut,” “I want to be a baseball player,” “I want to be a movie star;” all of these are typical dreams that children have for their life. It was never part of our original plan to be in the places we end up. (Example: tell me even three years ago that I’d move to Missouri in two and a half years and I would have laughed in your face.) So when Wayne says that she never planned on talking to him, it is analogous to Romans 3:11 in that no one seeks for God.

Maybe this is a stretch, but I’m interpreting the next two lines, “But I admire your poppin' bottles and dippin' / Just as much as you admire bartending and strippin'” to mean that he doesn’t admire it and neither does she in reality. He tells her not to be mad about that statement, because crooks will stay crooks, but he is different.

The bridge is where I got the idea for this post. It states:

Ooh, see I just want you to know (You to know)

That you deserve the best

You're beautiful, you're beautiful

Yeah, and I want you to know

You're far from the usual, far from the usual

To me, this sounds an awful lot like Song of Songs 2:2, where the man says to the woman, “Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the young women” (HCSB). Wayne is letting her know that she deserves a lot better, and he is claiming to be able to offer it. He says that she is far from a typical girl. He says that she makes other girls look like thorns in comparison.

Jesus says the same to each one of us. We have pursued other things. We are trapped in a cycle of looking for love in all the wrong ways. The sinful things we do (cf. “the way you moving your body”) prove that we are not finding love in the right place. Jesus ultimately wants us to know that He is the best and if we heed His offer He will give it to us. For those of us that are His, we deserve the best, and He will give it to us. We need not ever go back to poppin’ bottles and strippin’ (drunkenness and sexual sin) or any habitual sin for that matter. Jesus doesn't admire it!

So, hopefully I’ve made a good case that the gospel can be preached even from something as out there as a lil Wayne song. What will you use today to share Christ with those you know?

Soli Deo Gloria

Perseverance in Interceding

In my daily Bible reading this year I already stumbled across something I’ve read many times before, but never really thought much about. Genesis 18-19 tells of God’s plan to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the carrying out of that plan. However, before anyone starts pointing fingers at their assumptions about what I’m going to be writing about, I would like to say that I think we might have missed the point of the story. Genesis 18:17-33 begins the story; the cities aren’t destroyed until 19:24. That’s 40 verses between God revealing His plan and actually carrying it out.

What Abraham does in 18:22-33 is part of the main point of the story; a part that is normally missed for the sake of overemphasis on 19:5 leading to 19:24. And while it is true that God refers to 19:5 as the cause for 19:24 all the way back in 18:20-21, Abraham’s actions following this revelation are mandatory to grasp.

God tells him that He is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah in 18:20-21. Abraham immediately starts pleading for the city with God in 18:22 and following. He asks that if God can find 50 righteous people there, that He would then relent from the promised destruction. God says He will. Abraham then requests 45, perhaps because he doubts there are 50 righteous people. God again promises to relent. Abraham drops it to 40; God promises to relent. This goes all the way down to 10; God says, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it” (Genesis 18:32, NIV).

If there was ever a passage that screams, “Love those who struggle with disgusting sins like homosexuality,” this is one! Abraham did not want to see all those people destroyed, so he pleaded for their lives. Sure, he knew his nephew Lot and his family lived in Sodom, but as the next chapter shows, Lot was the only righteous person in the city: his wife turned back (19:26), his sons-in-law laughed at him (19:14), and his daughters later used him to produce offspring for themselves (19:30-38). Lot was the only redeeming quality in the city. Perhaps if Abraham had gone down to “one righteous person,” God would have spared the whole city for Lot’s sake.

However, in 18:32, Abraham does what we too often do while praying: we think God doesn’t want to hear our prayers go on too long. He said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” (NIV).

While Abraham may be excused for not persevering in intercession, as believers in Christ, we have the hope of Christ at God’s right hand, hearing us and interceding for us to His Father. “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16, NIV, emphasis added). Because of Christ, we can know that God will never be angry with us; sure, He will be disappointed when we sin, but He will never be angry. We need never pray like Abraham, “Don’t be angry,” because Christ bore His wrath for us. We should petition for ourselves to God, and intercede for others to God with complete confidence, and when we think we’ve covered the need, we should keep praying more.

This helps explain why 19:27-28 are in the story. “Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace” (NIV). Abraham realized his prayer wasn’t answered the way he expected. It is also interesting that Genesis 19 is the last time we hear about Lot. As far as Abraham knew, Lot perished when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. So, a lesson to learn is also that God answers our prayers the way we need them answered, even if not in the way we expect. Abraham wanted the whole city spared; God saved the righteous one and some non-righteous ones.

So, the ultimate lesson in this section of Scripture is: pray! Never stop! Pray until you’re tired, and then keep praying! Plead for the souls of sinful people! Apart from Christ, you’re no different than any other sinner. Pray for your city; you never know when it could be destroyed, and prayer has power! Trust that God will answer your prayer, because He always will. Even if He doesn’t answer it in the way you expect, trust that He knows what is best, but also reflect on whether or not you could have prayed more seriously about that situation—whatever it was.

Soli Deo Gloria.

Am I Really Supposed to Praise HER?

Paul wrote the following in 1 Corinthians 7:32-35:

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife— and ⌊his interests⌋ are divided. . . . Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.[1]

Okay, Paul. You were totally devoted to the Lord. You worshiped Him alone. You served Him wholeheartedly. You wanted others to be just as equally dedicated to Him so that the world could be evangelized quickly and usher in the second coming of Christ.

I get it. And believe me, I long for those things too. But I am a foolish young man who wants wisdom. I want to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord and that elevates Him above all things. But in the above passage, the phrase “not to put a restraint on you” looks very good, and I am extremely interested in a certain young lady. In fact, she knows I’m interested in her, and we have been in an “official” dating relationship for the past two months.

So here’s my conundrum: I want to keep God first, but too often I find myself extolling her too much in my mind. Paul was certainly right when he said I’ll have troubles in this life (cf. 1 Corinthians 7:28), and I’m not even married yet. So, in my search for wisdom regarding relationships I turned to the book of Proverbs. Chapter 31 describes the type of woman I pray that I will end up with, and the girl I’m dating definitely showcases many of the traits found in that awesome poem, but then the phrase at the end strikes me weirdly: “a woman who fears the Lord will be praised.”^[2]

This made me curious, so I check to see what Hebrew word is translated “praise,” hoping the writer differentiated this type of praise from the praise due to God alone (our English “hallelujah” is really a Hebrew compound word meaning “praise Yahweh”). And sure enough, my hopes are dashed. The Hebrew root describing the praise due to a Yahweh-fearing woman is הלל (halal).

This throws a monkey wrench into my thinking. I don’t want the word commanding me to praise God and praise a godly woman to be the same. I was hoping it would be a case of praise vs. respect or praise vs. honor or worship vs. praise. So, I decide to turn to the earliest translation of the Hebrew text: the Greek Septuagint (LXX). It does no better for me; αινεω (aineō) is also used throughout to refer to praising God.

God doesn’t want me to praise a godly woman the same way I praise Him, does He? I don’t at all want to be guilty of idolatry in a relationship. I don’t want my interests to be divided; I want to be completely dedicated to Jesus Christ. My heart is much too fickle as it is; I really wish that God would have helped me out a little here. How am I ever supposed to follow Paul’s advice in 1 Corinthians 7 if after I get married I am to praise my wife the same way I praise Yahweh? There has to be a divinely inspired reason for making the words the same. One scholar describes the meaning of the word as follows: “This root connotes being sincerely and deeply thankful for and/or satisfied in lauding a superior quality(ies) or great, great act(s) of the object.”^[3]

So thankfulness and satisfaction are to be found because of a Yahweh-fearing woman? I thought thankfulness and satisfaction were ultimately to be found in Yahweh alone. And then it gets even stickier. One word study explains that the root for the Hebrew “praise” comes from the Arabic language and means “sing joyfully to someone.”[4] So the best way to show praise is to sing to the object. I guess that explains why “hallelujah” occurs so often in the book of Psalms—the hymnbook of Israel. It also explains why “love songs” are so popular these days.

However, there is an important line to draw at this point. For the man or woman who fears Yahweh, Proverbs 31:30 describes the material that should be present in such “love songs.” That verse reads, “Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD will be praised.” Worldly “love songs” are all about external beauty, sexuality, and the like; the Christian husband (of whom I am not yet one, but hopefully someday) should praise his wife for something more permanent, namely the fact that she fears God. One commentator explains, “A beautiful woman may enjoy admiration and compliments for the moment, but the one who will really be praised is she who fears the Lord.”[5] Not to say that the fear of the Lord in her is what is to be praised,[6] but rather that if a woman really fears Yahweh, there will be no end of things in her person, character, and appearance for which her husband can praise her.

The fear of Yahweh is key in the discussion, because in the book of Proverbs fear of Yahweh is the litmus test for everything. Proverbs 1:7 makes the fear of Yahweh the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 8:13 makes the fear of Yahweh the hatred of evil. Proverbs 19:23 makes the fear of Yahweh what grants a peaceful life (which can be understood in light of the Gospel of John’s eternal life theology). In Proverbs 8, wisdom speaks as if she was a woman, and explains that she is more valuable than precious metals (8:10-11) which is coincidentally parallel to the phrase in 31:10. I’ve joked (though I’m not sure how much of a joke it is) that the book of Proverbs is a “how to find a wife manual,” but at the very least it gives evidence to the fact that a godly wife is invaluable in life for the Christian man. If she fears Yahweh, she has at least a seed of wisdom (that can and should be nurtured and grown), she has a hatred of evil (at least minimal that can and should grow), and she is living her life in the light of the fact that she has eternal life through Christ. These are all reasons for a believing husband to praise his wife. “All that she does for her household affords her husband the financial stability and social status that a responsible husband desires for himself, his children—and his wife.”[7] This basically means that if she has the qualities resulting from the fear of Yahweh, her husband should possess them too, and together they can sharpen each other in them (cf. Proverbs 27:17).

But with all that information, I’m still officially single as far as Proverbs 31 is concerned. How much am I able to praise the godly woman that God has placed in my life during this chapter of our relationship? It is very interesting that the word in verse 10 translated “wife” is the same word in verse 30 translated “woman,” so I could try to make a case that verse 10 is translated wrong, and that any Yahweh-fearing woman deserves to be praised, which isn’t necessarily a bad view to hold (all Yahweh-fearing people need to be encouraged in their faith [cf. Hebrews 10:24-25]). However, by verse 30, the context has made it clear that it is speaking of a wife, and since the Hebrew there is identical to that in verse 10, it should be translated “a wife who fears the Lord will be praised.” So I can’t yet do this.

But then I look into how this passage has been understood historically and try to find a way out, a way to apply Proverbs 31:30 in a dating relationship (I mean, if all Scripture is useful for different things like Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 3:16, then this passage should be no different). Fox explains that most “[c]ommentators agree that, at least on the surface, an actual human woman is being described,” (which doesn’t help my case right now, but he goes on). “Some, however, add a further, allegorical, level of meaning and consider that as conveying the poem’s most significant message.”[8] Maybe I can apply this passage to my relationship allegorically. I learn that Jewish scholars allegorized this text to be able to refer to men as well as women, which probably paved the way for Augustine to understand it in its most influential allegorical understanding: the church.[9] This is helpful for me. If she belongs to the church, just like I belong to the church, then I can praise her as my sister-in-Christ all the time. I can drive her crazy with my praise for her. But then the following two thoughts strike: 1) Are you going to praise all your sisters-in-Christ that way? and 2) if it’s allegorical, then God is the husband who is praising His church. Bang goes that theory!

So I’m back to square one. I think the world of a certain girl, but how do I show that to her in an appropriate way at this stage of our relationship? From all that I can see right now, I can’t do this. And then I see this: “The Woman of Strength [literal translation of ‘capable wife’ in 31:10] has her negative counterpart in the Strange Woman, also a type figure.”[10] And elsewhere, I find this:

The young man has no choice but to follow one woman or the other. He will either pursue Woman Wisdom or Woman Folly, and with them he will take their counterparts, the good wife or the prostitute/quarrelsome wife. He cannot attain wisdom without the good wife because she creates the environment in which he can flourish. If he chooses an evil woman, he has little hope of transcending the context she will make for him.[11]

It’s the italicized section that gave me my application. The greatest way I can praise a godly woman who I’m dating is by not being lured away by another. If I get lured away by the Strange Woman in a dating relationship, what’s to assure me either 1) that I won’t be lured away in a married relationship? or 2) that I will even end up married to a wise woman? The answer for both of these is NOTHING. As such, I can praise the woman God has given me right now by building her up in Christ as I remind her of His promises, by pointing out qualities in her that I admire, by telling her she is beautiful on occasion (because every girl needs to hear it sometimes), and by fighting all sin patterns in me that would lead her to conclude that I am not worthy of a Proverbs 31 woman (which if she was still with me would necessarily lead her to doubt her own status as a Proverbs 31 woman).

But then I feel like it’s too late. I feel like I’ve done too much wrong to ever deserve the virtuous wife described in Proverbs 31. I feel like I deserve more of the type of woman described in Proverbs 7 and warned against throughout the book. And then God reminds me, “Look at the girl I’ve placed in your life right now. She’s nowhere near the Proverbs 7 type; she’s well on her way to emulating the Proverbs 31 type. Be grateful. Stand up and be a man for her. Stop moping! Christ died for you! I’ve forgiven you. You’re loved.” I know it’s true, and if you ever feel the same way that I find myself feeling on occasion, it can be true for you too (and maybe already is). As soon as you turn to Christ in faith, He will turn your life around, and the statements there will be true of you too. Forgiven. Loved. Until you know the love of Christ, you can never love another human properly.

I conclude with a quote aimed at married men, but the additional understanding I add in [brackets] are to explain it and apply to us dating guys as well.

[H]ere is a basic principle for us men: If we don't get radical, nothing will ever change. Christ got radical for you at the cross, and it changed everything forever. And he put you with your wife [girlfriend] because he loves her. He put you with her as a mighty blessing to her. So get radical, start changing, begin a new tradition in your home [relationship][12], starting today. If you step out in new obedience, the Lord will help you. And your family [future family] will rejoice over you.[13]

How will you get radical for your wife / future wife? Christ has the grace to help you. All you have to do is ask Him to help you accomplish whatever it is He is calling you to do. For your wife—for your future wife—: praise her! I certainly plan on doing it by reminding her of the Gospel, by pointing out her good traits, by telling her she is beautiful, and by fighting sin in myself. How will you praise the one God has placed in your life?

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[1] Unless otherwise noted, all scripture quotations are taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, © 2003 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission.

[2] Emphasis added.

[3] R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Bruce K. Waltke, ed., “500: ‏הָלַל‎,” in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 217.

[4] H. Cazelles, “llh,” In Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 3, edited by G. Johannes Botterweck & Helmer Ringgren (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997), 404.

[5] Michael V. Fox, Proverbs 10-31, Anchor Bible Commentary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 898. Emphasis in original.

[6] Contra Roland E. Murphy, Proverbs, Word Biblical Commentary (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 244.

[7] Michael V. Fox, Proverbs 10-31, Anchor Bible Commentary, 917

[8] Ibid., 905

[9] Ibid., 906-907.

[10] Ibid., 911.

[11] Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, New American Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1993), 252. Emphasis mine.

[12] This can be done according to the bolded statements two paragraphs prior.

[13] Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., Preaching the Word – Proverbs: Wisdom that Works, ed. R. Kent Hughes, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 152.