We have the teaching.  We have the promise.  Henceforth, we have ministry.  In the early seventies, a German theologian of some note wrote a book: The Church in the Power…

We Have Ministry

June 1, 2025
Not quite a century ago, Louis Berkhof, Professor of Dogmatic Theology and president of Calvin Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wrote his Systematic Theology, which remained influential probably even into…

Showing, Knowing

May 11, 2025
Some can get so hung up on the horrible, deplorable misogynist patriarchy that they lose sight of the fact that Scripture doesn’t exactly paint the noblest picture of men to…

Love Invites

April 6, 2025
Some people are confident—we kind of admire them.  Some are over-confident.  Confidence isn’t a bad thing—quite good, actually.  We need confidence daily, even when we don’t think about it, as…

Initiation Into Ministry

January 12, 2025
So Jesus was baptized.  He wasn’t in need of it: John the Baptist was quite plain about that, confessing that, truly, John was the one in need of baptism at…