Christianity need not retreat from investigation. Its central claim is that the Word became flesh, entered history, was crucified, and on the third day rose from the dead. That is not an embarrassment to be overcome. It is the claim we have been given to declare and defend.
In the end, your story isn’t an epic of personal glory. You aren’t the hero. Your Savior Jesus is.
Whether a Christian enjoys high church, low church, or something in between, aesthetics in the Church are not about any one individual person and their particular tastes. Aesthetics are, fundamentally, not a matter of legalism, but of edification—that the Gospel of Christ might be preached and taught to all peoples, unhindered by its medium.

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You’re not new because of what you do. You’re new and so you do new things, even in spite of yourself, because of your sinful nature.
From the beginning to the end of his letter, John really wants one thing: for us to be in Jesus.
Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.
The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
You will not be disappointed in this Champion of the Incarnation.
In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.