Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics is phenomenal as classroom material to introduce ethics.
The Narrative of Noah's Baptism
New creation has appeared. Noah is a re-casting of Adam and he is bestowed with a new creation. Already this story is highlighting the Holy Spirit and water.
Why I Love Integrated Worship
A child who is immersed in Christian worship will necessarily be shaped by that immersion. Conversely, when the children are whisked away to the church annexes they are denied such formation. Further, the act removing the children from Christ’s Body (the church) seems to run straight against the words of our Lord when he
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 5 – The World of the Patriarchs
n the world of the patriarchs god's focus zooms in from the world of Noah to the land of Canaan. It
Outgrowing Confessions
The historical confessions have been a means of grace too long ignored by American Evangelicalism. But they are not infallible.
Lent and Introspection
Do not simply add Lent to your personal devotional life. Do not simply make Lent another expression of the individualism that is so rampant in the current American church. Rather, see Lent as an opportunity to join with your brothers and sisters in Christ around the world in a season of self-examination and repentance.
Book Review: Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously (editor Jeremy A. Evans)
Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously is one of the most important introductory books on practical ethics that can be read for conservative laymen and pastors. This book’s niche is Southern Baptists but it expands beyond many traditional boxes in exceptional ways.
Hospitality, Gifts and Pagan Literature
The fact is hospitality is a central theme to the scriptures, particularly in the ways that it points to the incarnation and God's desire to once again dwell with
There Is Forgiveness for Even That Filth
One of my Lutheran friends, Jordan Cooper, has handled the incident in such a way as to make any further statements a waste of clean air. Yet, I am going to waste such air and attempt to expand beyond the shameful controversy.
Listening to Other Stories
The world is no longer majestic and mysterious. Rather, everything can be known scientifically. All things can be boiled down to left or right. Perhaps what we really need is a return to
Impotent Churches and Shallow Theology
"I've seen a generation plagued by religious restlessness derived from time in impotent churches and shallow theology. I couldn't blame them."
Folk (and a Bit of Americana) Primer
I'm here to write about 5 artists/groups, hard-working, hard-touring folks, purveying a brand of genuinely heart-felt music I've been guilty of thinking no longer existed. If it lies within your power to see and hear these musicians, make it happen. If it doesn't, try legal downloads or physical-format purchases from their sites.
Why Philosophy Is A Worthwhile Study For Christians
Though every non-Christian philosopher may have stolen the good stuff that they have found, at bare minimum they’ve provided more opportunities to learn about God, his nature, and his creation. Athens has a great deal to do with Jerusalem, and followers of Christ would do well to become familiar with it, though they ought not become citizens of it.
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 4 – The World of Noah
The inspired authors of scripture saw history unfolding in such a way that the world is constantly being destroyed and remade. With each new world comes new ways that man is to relate to God and act in the world. This is played out over and over again in the pages of the Old Testament.
Bourbon 101
Hi there. It's bourbon time.
Turning the World Upside Down
The fact that I, a descendant of the Danes who used to worship Thor, go to church to worship the one true and living God is proof that Paul and the other Apostles really did turn the world upside down 2000 years ago!
Yes, I’m Hypocritically Judging Your Judging
Perhaps I am just tired of Protestantism and her legacy of hermeneutical interpretive dance. Is there a beauty in this I am missing? Perhaps the problems I’ve so… magniloquently (insert self-conscious chuckle here)… expressed here stem from some grave uncertainty in my soul. My sanctimonious passing of judgement is, possibly, just a symptom of the gracelessness to which we are all prone to, to one degree or another.
Coercive Love: Progressivism in Christian Culture (Part 1)
Hansen rightly states that a Trinitarian worldview is both the One and the Many, but the thesis of his article leaves too much room for fascism—especially Christian fascism in the name of “loving your neighbor.” This fascism, if not invoked by policy, would certainly be invoked by cultural coercion.
Ideological “Sleights-of-Hand”
Of all the ideological "sleight-of-hands" the modern thought police have pulled off, perhaps the greatest of them is convincing the modern mind that it was religion & not
on insomnia and life
when you sleep maybe two hours near dawn
and how doing anything at all is brave and stern.