Theological Resources
A place for Christians who take both suffering and Scripture seriously, and refuse to choose between intellectual honesty and trust in God.
"There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God." — Hebrews 4:9
Spiritual Formation
There are seasons when prayer rises and seems to go nowhere. Not because God is absent, but because He is doing something we cannot see from the floor of the furnace. What does it mean to wrestle faithfully when the heavens feel like brass?
Apologetics
Intellectual questioning is not the opposite of faith. For the Christian, it may be one of its most faithful expressions. A case for the examined life.
Theology
The Psalter does not sanitize anguish. Forty-two Psalms are laments, and many of them accuse God of absence. What are we to make of a Canon that preserves this?
Spiritual Formation
The Protestant account of sanctification has always resisted moralism. It is not the Christian making herself better. It is the Spirit making her more like Christ.
Epistemology
Modern Christianity has often treated doubt as spiritual failure. Church history, and the great cloud of witnesses, suggests otherwise.
Church History
Before the modern problem of evil became a philosophical argument, pastors buried children and emperors burned believers. How did the early church hold on?
Culture
Charles Taylor mapped the conditions of belief in modernity. For Christians who feel the pressure of the buffered self, his diagnosis is both sobering and useful.
Prayer, suffering, sanctification, and the interior life of discipleship.
Defending the faith and engaging the honest questions of skeptics.
Systematic and biblical theology for people who want to think carefully.
How do we know what we know? Faith, reason, and the nature of belief.
The saints who walked this road before us and what they left behind.
Christianity and the modern world, from secular pressure to digital distraction.
About This Project
Wrestle in Rest exists for Christians who refuse to pretend that faith is easy, and who refuse to abandon it when it is hard. These articles are written for people who take Scripture seriously and take their doubts seriously, and believe that both things can be true at once.
About the Project →"So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest."Hebrews 4:9-11 (ESV)