Interpreting Scripture
Reading the Bible is challenging. We are 2,000+ years removed from when the content was written and the time(s) it was written about. Much of the struggle in reading Scripture is truly understanding what is…
CrossTraining
This year is the year of CrossTraining. CrossTraining is all about two things . . . bringing others to the cross and taking up our own. Matthew 10:38; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; 1…
Reading the Bible – Chronologically
Reading the Bible just makes sense. Reading plans are a dime a dozen. This does not negate or lessen their value, however. But it does make for difficult decisions on which reading plan you use.…
Struggle of Life
Have you struggled with the way life is and the way it should be? People fall into one of three philosophies of thought when struggling through this tension: Theist (We can know God), Agnostic (I’m…
I Like Adoption
The Joy and Gravity of Adoption New Film Premiere – I Like Adoption. from ILikeGiving.com on Vimeo. HT: Justin Taylor, Tim Challies, and Z.
Media and the Massacre
Andy Crouch wrote an article for Christianity Today in which he says, “True compassion requires turning off the news.” All that any of us who do not live in Newtown, Connecticut, truly needed to know—possibly…
A Gospel-Centered Manifesto Part 3
A right eschatology does not liberate us from the present; it liberates us for the present. An Aside: Apocalyptic language and metaphor As Matthew Malcolm4 shares, If you’ve encountered the opinion that unless we interpret…
Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer always seemed to me to spread an atmosphere of happiness and joy over the least incident and profound gratitude for the mere fact that he was alive. … He was one of the very…
A Gospel-Centered Manifesto Part 2
Christological Focus1 But the greatest challenge (and the greatest privilege) in preaching the Old Testament is finding the way that it points to Christ and bringing that to the congregation in a way that clearly…