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.
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10/26/26
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.
10/16/26
In Jesus, God acted first, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:5).
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01/18/17
He barely wakes to find himself nearly dead; even so, he can’t feel a thing.
01/03/17
Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
12/08/16
He finds the woman and the man in the Garden and fought back for the identity of His people.
12/01/16
Can the chain of cause and effect extend infinitely?
11/23/16
It was Jesus who appeared to Hagar, comforted her, and gave her the promise of future blessings. It was Jesus who came to her when it seemed everything and everyone else had let her down.
11/06/16
The church is God’s flock. Jesus is both a lion and a lamb. The zoo turns out to be as packed with theology as a seminary, if not more.
10/25/16
In our time Christ has not left us bereft of unbroken signs of His promised return.
10/07/16
Read your life like a Hebrew, from the end to the beginning, and you will see that the last is first. The dead are alive, the cursed are blessed, the humble are exalted.
10/04/16
There was another criminal next to Christ the day he died. He was aware of who Jesus was, and why he was there.
09/28/16
I'm afraid of dying. I am a Christian and I am horribly afraid of falling bridges, crashing planes, turned over cars and anything else that you can think of that would include my body being mangled into a mess of bones and flesh.
08/20/16
To forget ourselves is to remember another, that is, to act in such a way that benefits them. That’s the problem: we don’t.
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