Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

By Bradley Gray

10/28/26

19mins

Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

Adam Francisco

10/27/26

The Other History of Feminism

Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.

Christ Died for Losers: Confessions of a Padres Fan

Russ Lackey

10/26/26

Christ Died for Losers: Confessions of a Padres Fan

Jesus never promised me a World Series championship. He never promised that my children would always succeed or that life would go according to plan. He promised something better.

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Joel Hess

02/09/17

The Fruit of a Culture That Worships Individualism: Loneliness

We have now reached a point where many believe so strongly in individualism that nothing else matters.

Chad Bird

01/30/17

Guest Post: It's the Love: On Conversion from Islam to Christianity

But one key theme that kept surfacing again and again was love: Jesus loved people, the Church showed me genuine love, and above all, God’s love in Christianity is unconditional.

Chad Bird

01/29/17

Keeping up with the Joneses' Church

A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.

Chad Bird

01/26/17

John Chrysostom: The Preacher with a Golden Tongue

The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.

Joel Hess

01/19/17

Through His Church, Christ's Story is Your Story

The story did not end with Jesus' death and resurrection, or even with the Acts of the Apostles.

Chad Bird

01/11/17

Birds in the Pulpit

The preacher does not merely send out the raven. From the pulpit flies forth the dove of the Gospel.

Bob Hiller

01/06/17

When Old Adam Fences the Table

I grew up with a great deal of guilt. It still keeps me up at night. For one reason or another, I was convinced I hadn’t done enough to be loved by God.

Chad Bird

01/05/17

Christ's Bride Doesn't Need Botox

Hers is not a beauty of breathtaking cathedrals, stained glass, or towering arches, but of a body.

Joel Hess

01/05/17

The Church is not a Hospital for Sinners, It's a Morgue for the Dead

It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.

Chad Bird

01/03/17

Baptism Foreshadowed in Old Testament Narratives

Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.

Bror Erickson

12/29/16

A Bridegroom of Blood

The arrangement was made with Abraham when God claimed for Himself all of his being, and put the seal of His promise upon the most personal member of his anatomy.

Donavon Riley

12/27/16

Where There Is No Gospel...

Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"

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