It just can't be good that every credit card swipe we make, every phone call, every movement, it seems, is on somebody's computer somewhere. We're always watchful these days for privacy loss and identity theft, running our opened mail down the shredder to keep any more info about us from leaking out.

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Very few things in life are "always" and "never." Your wife doesn't always tell you how to drive. Your pastor isn't always asking for money. It's not like your kids never do a thing you say.

The medal stand. The winner's circle. The trophy presentation ceremony, followed at noon the next day by an open-convertible parade down Main Street. The sports world knows how to tell who's been successful at accomplishing what they set out to do. You can spot the champion by the title he holds.

I'd like you to see watch this powerful video. - Joe Gibbs

I'd like you to see watch this powerful video. - Joe Gibbs

Is the Christian faith intellectual nonsense? Are Christians deluded?

"If God exists and takes an interest in the affairs of human beings, his will is not inscrutable," writes Sam Harris about the 2004 tsunami in Letter to a Christian Nation . "The only thing inscrutable here is that so many otherwise rational men and women can deny the unmitigated horror of these events and think this is the height of moral wisdom." [i] 

Let me begin in a prayer. Lord, we thank You this evening for the hope of the resurrection, the reality of Christ's resurrection from the grave, and, therefore, the hope that we have. We ask that we would live in that living hope; and that we would be a people for Your own possession and for Your purposes. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.

We are going to be looking tonight at the most profound mystery of all, and in doing so we are going to be coming down to the very heart of all things.

I want to continue on our journey concerning the attributes of God and we talked last time about certain attributes that God has that we do not have, and that are really what we would call incommunicable attributes. These attributes had to do with the fact that God is spirit.

We are going to be looking at the whole area of what the Bible says about God and this is going to the first series in a series of series. I am going to be looking at what the Bible says about God; what the Bible says about Christ; and then what it says about the Holy Spirit.

When I'm asked what writers had the most profound influence on me as a young Christian, I always say there were three, and they continue to influence me today: C. S. Lewis, A. W. Tozer and Francis Schaeffer. In past months I've written about the subject of desire and longing in Augustine, Pascal and C. S. Lewis. Today I want to share from Tozer.