By Mark Proctor
Pastor, Highland Park Baptist Church, Columbia
Focal Passage: Judges 16:4-6,13-20
Cornelius Plantinga wrote a delightful little book called Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be (Eerdmans, 1995) that every one of us should read. It’s about sin and sin’s opposite, shalom with God. There, he states, “… shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness and delight — a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed … in other words … the way things ought to be.” God has a way things ought to be, a perfect order and a perfect peace. [Read more…]