The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
06/13/26
This is what Christian catechesis does; it turns the knobs of the Scriptures and throws the doors of God’s word wide open to tell us the story of salvation.
06/10/26
Christianity isn’t simply a tool to fix social, spiritual, or economic problems. Its claims are much larger, touching upon truth itself and therefore all things and all people.
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04/19/16
But on the mountain in Galilee, where we encounter a very different side of God, doubts overtake us. Why?
04/14/16
This story is all-too-common, and illustrates a key dynamic driving the youth out of church.
04/11/16
Years ago a young woman approached her pastor with a request. It wasn’t a strange request. She simply asked if he would perform her wedding ceremony.
04/08/16
Should we consider the tomb of Jesus completely empty, or just somewhat empty?
04/04/16
Imagine a church's mission statement is: "You Don't Have to Fake It Till You Make It." That is, you walk into church and an usher hands you a bulletin
04/03/16
You are changing as your eyes move over these sentences. You are aging. You are on your way to death. And nothing, absolutely nothing, can alter that fact.
04/01/16
There’s something appealing about a caged deity.
03/30/16
There is an unfortunate, but familiar pilgrimage that entirely too many have taken—servants who have offered strong confession and service in the pure Gospel, but who then have doctrinally gone astray.
03/24/16
In this evil generation we’re all in the dark about something. We’re all inevitably overcome by the darkness of sin and death.
03/17/16
If you want to find God, he’s hiding in plain sight. Christ is in the very things that we would never select as a vessel befitting divinity.
03/14/16
The Lord has a special place in his heart for those whom the world forgets. For the anonymous. For the rejected.
03/09/16
If even your family has disowned and discarded you; yes, if every single person in this world regards you as a hopeless, embarrassing failure at life, the Father of all mercies does not.
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