Love that Reconciles
This is the fulfillment of the second great commandment that we live as those reconciled one to another.
Until We Murder
How long will we continue to be angry with one another if we neglect contentment in God? Until we murder.
Music Review: Broken Machine
Keep an ear out for these chaps. They’re going places.
Ten Book Challenge
In an alternate history, all but ten books of the current canon have been lost. You and you alone are responsible for determining what ten books the church will have to inform the entire life of the church.
Music Review: Science Fiction
He’s there, haunting Brand New’s music as well, whether they recognize it or not. For he cannot be brought low.
Sinfulness is Accidental
That man's nature is not inherently corrupt and evil means that regeneration into the image of Christ is a restoration of the nature God gave us.
Music Review: Truth is a Beautiful Thing
The music is almost all solemn, majestic, and as I said, cavernous. Not at all out of place in a cathedral or a concert hall.
Drowning in Grace
And then I hit my breaking point. The next time Crockett said to me, “No! You’re a bad person!” I just kissed his head and said, “And that’s why we need grace, Crockett.”
Is the Gospel Enough for the White Church & the Uncle Toms?
Jesus does not save you just to leave you where you are. Jesus saves you, gives you a new heart, works in your life, comforts and empowers you, and enables you to love your neighbor.
My Parents' Bed
I remember singing my mother to sleep as she lay in that bed exhausted from chemotherapy.
Us & Them
May this be our constant motivation to see the "them" in a way our Savior God would have us see them. Loved. Deeply.
Scholasticism and Justification
So my question in the midst of talk about Reformed Scholasticism is thus: are we justified by precision alone?
Book Review: Hands of Faith
Pertinent to Lutherans and Reformed communities, Cooper helpfully navigates the over extended law-gospel schema regularly depicted in its reductionist form.
A Plea for Seriousness
It is something of a banality to say one has a love-hate relationship with Twitter, but I do.
what fragmentary rubbidge this world is
This is the last piece you'll have to read from me about my love life, or lack thereof.
Free Beer for a Funeral
But every time I see or drink a Lost Gold IPA, I laugh a little. I tear up a little. And I remember those two days.
Music Review: Lo Tom by Lo Tom
The more I listen, the more I want to listen. And, currently, that is a musical oddity for me, which is why I cannot say enough about why everyone should buy this album and rock it endlessly.
Lawfulness in Luther's Catechism
There are many areas in which Reformed believers can learn from Luther and the passive/active two kinds of righteousness presented by Cooper.
Luther and Union with Christ
erhaps, the biggest resonance of Luther's union with Christ language is how to changes our reflection on Christian obedience versus the "civic righteousness" of the non-believer.