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The true foolishness of Christianity
Rachel Held Evans is quoted by Starlette Thomas’s new book, Take Me to the Water, about the oddity of baptism. It marks just how odd Christianity truly is.
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The “new right” and antisemitism
This column by David French needs to be printed off and posted on bulletin boards and refrigerators. Let me begin by saying, “YES! Antisemitism exists on the left as well.” And I am truly exhausted with people trying to defend slogans that truly mean one thing and someone else saying it “means another thing.” We’ll never be able to set…
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The Spirit is at work because WE are there
We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain — in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed by ward — so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the Holy Spirit will plead to the…
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The Holy Spirit grieves
We tend to want to be triumphant in all we do. We can look at a horrible situation and then blindly declare with a cheerful voice: “God is in control!” Like the cheeriness in our voice will take away the sting of the situation.
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Our great vocation
We don’t “just pray.” We don’t throw up our hands in a situation and say, “Well, all we can do now is pray.” Prayer is our vocation. And Paul, in Romans 8:22-27, let’s us know that our prayer is not just for us. It is for the world. If we will get out of our own way, we can effectively…
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How to “solve” the Middle East dilemma
If the article is not behind a paywall, this is worth a read. CLICK HERE. There isn’t a good way through all of this. I hardly comment on social media because it’s just nigh impossible. I know I will put this out on social media, but I take that risk for the sake of trying to put something out that…
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The gospel is action
Luke 3:7–14 (NIV) 7 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise…
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The kingdom of God and suffering
In the past few weeks I’ve had a similar question posed to me: “When did you come to faith?” My answer has been a bit longer because I honestly can’t remember a time I wasn’t aware of Jesus in my life in a way where I knew he was there and I was somehow following him.
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Refreshing words of Isaiah
Camp yourself in Isaiah 43 for a day or two. Let words like these settle deeply in your spirit:
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“We are all more or less wrong”
An excerpt I read from a letter reflecting on the heartache in the Middle East. The quote is from Thomas Merton:
