Should Christians Get Political?
For the longest time, the one thing well-mannered people were told never to do was discuss faith or politics at the table. Why? Because it’s divisive. We all have such strong opinions that instead of developing the capacity for nuanced, respectful conversation and debate, we opted to avoid the matters that, as it turns out,…
The Reliability and Authority of Scripture
We just had ‘week two’ at church in a series on ‘What We Believe’, and this week was all about why we confidently believe that the Bible we hold in our hands today is a reliable copy of the original writings, and that it is the supernatural Word of God that carries the highest authority…
Why I prefer the ESV
How should Christians and pastors evaluate the multitude of Bible translations and paraphrases available today? Which Bible translation is the best? The following is taken from an article on The Resurgence website, a ministry of the former Mars Hill church. While The Resurgence and Mars Hill are no longer operating today, the perspective they shared…
Trinity: The Nature of God
The Christian distinctive really is that we believe in ONE God who is revealed in THREE persons. It is based on Scripture; it is right there in the Apostle’s Creed, and it has been a pillar of Christian belief since the church began in the 1st Century. I recently preached a sermon on why we,…
Wade in the Water
There have been many versions of this old 1966 Ramsey Lewis jazz song, Wade in the Water, I remember learning a cover version on guitar to play for a school scripture class while a friend of mine sang the soulful words, wade in the water, children, God’s gonna trouble the water… The lyrics play on…
Shawn Bolz, Bethel & the widespread lack of accountability in the church.
Shawn Bolz is a fraud; he has been exposed, with copious amounts of evidence, to be a fake prophet (data mining Facebook and claiming God gave him secret knowledge), and to have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways around his staff members. So, naturally, there is a lot of talk in the Charismatic world right now…
Sorry, I was wrong, and you need to know
There’s something sacred about opening the Bible. Not because the paper is holy or the ink carries magic, but because Christians believe that through these words God has chosen to speak; clearly, faithfully, and for every generation. As Paul told Timothy, ‘all scripture is God-breathed’ (2 Tim 3:16). That’s why translation matters. When we read…
We’ll have to go through it!
CAN’T GO OVER IT There’s a fun story book that I loved as a boy, ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’, that describes the adventures of some children on a journey to find a bear. On each page they confront a new obstacle and the refrain is the same; We can’t go under it, we can’t…
Make Disciples; what did Jesus mean?
The final words Jesus spoke to His disciples were not rushed, sentimental, or abstract. They were spoken by the risen Lord, standing on the far side of death, addressing men who were about to be scattered into a hostile world with no institutional power and little cultural leverage. His words were calculated, specific, missional, and…
When Jesus goes flipping mad
I was watching the new season of the Chosen this week, it was the episode where Jesus enters the Temple and breaks out a whip… he goes Old Testament on the market place and starts flipping tables; it really got me thinking. The Gospels tell the story with a kind of holy bluntness. Jesus walks…
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