It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on repeat, these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies i...
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
I can’t find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
Holism is when two plus two equals infinity.
Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God do this, or even allow this, and still claim to be a loving God?Does God punish p...
God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.
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People are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.
For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere
You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, You can’t put new wine into old w...
What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and calling them forward, into greater and greater shalom and respect and rights...
To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.
The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.
I don’t read the Bible like a flat line. I don’t see all of the passages in the Bible sitting equally side by side so that you can pick one and then counter it with another and go back and forth endle...
God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?
Does God get what God wants?That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us much to discuss. But there’s a better question. One that we actually can a...
Central to this conquest of the world was the belief that military victory is peace. There was even one line from the empire propaganda that went Caesar is the son of God sent to earth to bring about...
Because when you can’t hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it always leads to the diminishing of your empire. History
Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a song.
The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.