Letter to the North American Church
There is an event called “Eighth Letter” where writers are encouraged to write a letter to the church in North America. eighthletter.com/ A site listing many other contributions can be found here:...
View ArticleNuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. I saw this on Peter Rollins site, and I was so impacted by it, I had to share it here. It is a perfect parable concerning Christ and the Church and the nature of...
View ArticleThe Two Selves
photo © 2009 Lisa Omarali | more info (via: Wylio) Despite all of this talk about grace, we all know that there remains a struggle with errant desire. There is no use beating around the bush, we...
View ArticleFaith as the hinge of all history
In studying through the book of Luke, I discovered something that to me is quite a little gem. In Matt 16/Luke 9 we have the story of Jesus’ dialog with Peter and the disciples about His identity:...
View ArticlePredestination Pillow Talk
photo © 2006 James Diggans | more info (via: Wylio) “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh,...
View ArticleThe Church as a Gift Culture
photo © 1890 The Library of Congress | more info (via: Wylio) I know I’m supposed to be doing a study through the book of Job, but I keep having these other ideas so I’m going to go with them. I...
View ArticleWork out your salvation with fear?
Beautiful Bride “So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is...
View ArticleInnocuous Seeker Sensitive Legalism
Most churches would hesitate to label themselves as legalistic or law-centered. I want to take a look at a typical ‘seeker-friendly’ helpful life-focused practical sermon meant to help normal average...
View ArticleChoosing Kindness or Malice – Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. (Ephesians 4:32, NASB). This sounds like a wonderful verse, when stripped of context like...
View ArticlePreaching the Gospel with the Cool Kids
We live in a world where, if you are going to get your message across, you have to get hard and passionate and fiery. If you are trying to browbeat sinners and idiots and fools into right living, that...
View ArticleKazoos, Terrorists, and the Scandal of Grace
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face...
View ArticleWatching Trees Grow
6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 The other day, I was sitting in one of the beautiful parks...
View ArticleGrace in Community: Group sins, Group redemption
I have more to say about grace in community. I know that probably comes as a shock! My awesome church family at Bread and Wine Fellowship is teaching me more and more how this works, and I could not...
View ArticleThe True Message of the Church isn’t Traditional Family Values
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. 16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me...
View ArticleThoughts on Communion
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This...
View ArticleJesus Eats with Drag Queens?
I have been asked numerous times about what I think about church discipline. Well, I hate it. I have no specific policy about it. I just want everyone to be perfect and stop all the nonsense without...
View ArticleThoughts on Politics: No authority except from God
1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has...
View ArticleThe Cross in Troubled Times
Do you know who confessed that, “Pure Americanism can only be secured by confidence in the fact that the Cross of Jesus Christ is the wisest and strongest force in existence.”? Does that sentiment...
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