Where the Inside Is Larger Than the Outside

By Bradley Gray

10/28/26

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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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Donavon Riley

01/10/17

The Center and Measure of All Things

The truth is, a Christian's holiness is hidden outside himself in Christ through faith.

Donavon Riley

01/03/17

God's New Year Resolution

Are our resolutions righteous? Is our commitment to self-improvement a selfless act motivated by love for the neighbor?

Joel Hess

12/09/16

Spending Advent in God’s Winter Garden

So it is with my little garden as well; dead, so it would seem. Nothing. Barren.

Donavon Riley

12/06/16

Isn't There Anywhere A Person Can Be Still?

This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.

Chad Bird

12/03/16

Two Ways to Launch Your Career in the Self-Salvation Business

Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.

Donavon Riley

11/29/16

Good Works Don't Come With A Price Tag

Old Adam's works are good because he says they're good. End of conversation.

Matt Kroelinger

11/18/16

Weak Faith in the Midst of Tragedy

Recently I’ve met many people that have suffered tragedies in their families. I know this sounds a little selfish, but the ones that stick out the most to me are the ones that affected my own family.

Joel Fitzpatrick

11/09/16

The Death of the Me Monster

A while ago I ran across a great comedy routine. In it Brian Regan riffs on those who he calls Me Monsters. This is a person who must be at the center of every conversation.

Scott Keith

11/03/16

Philip Melanchthon: The Method of the “Loci Communes” - 1526

by Philip Melanchthon, translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D.; edited by Kurt Winrich

Bonnie Petroschuk

10/13/16

Like a Frightened Dog

My husband and I just adopted Duke, a very cute beagle mix, from a nearby shelter. He is about three years old and was found wandering in a park several months ago.

Chad Bird

09/27/16

My Favorite Dirty Word in Church

You became, for a time, ritually unclean. Not sinful. Not immoral. To be unclean meant you bore in your own body the effects of a creation in bondage to decay.

Chad Bird

09/23/16

The Beast of "Should" at the Zoo

All our little laws reveal that we are, by nature, trying to justify ourselves before others, and before God, based on what we do and who we are.

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