It’s not judging when one person says to another: that’s a really rotten thing you just did. It’s not judging to say you’re hurting our relationship and you’re hurting yourself. …
People were just floored by how Jesus spoke and taught. “[H]e taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law” (Mk 7:29). The rabbis said,…
What characteristic makes a Christian Christian? Faith? Love? Hope? Obedience? Humility? I believe—I hope—that I speak with you often about these virtues, these qualities. These are what give distinctive flavor…
Anyone besides me hesitant to start a conversation about Jesus, hesitant to share your faith? We don’t want to offend anybody. Society and culture tell us religion is private, and…
Paul gives an overview of the life to which Christ calls us here and hereafter. Jesus speaks of himself as the way to the hereafter. Paul calls us to…
“Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (5:9). Peace must be made. Have you considered that? Peace isn’t simply already there. What’s already there is…
How are we supposed to do church? How are we supposed to be church? Those are good questions, even though we are nearly two thousand years into this. We have…
Millions want to know God. Knowing God isn’t easy. There is so much around us and within to distract us, deflect us. That desire is still there, though. What is…
For quite some time, Christians didn’t need to think very much about their faith and beliefs. Yes, sure, society and culture were fallen, but in impersonal ways that didn’t touch…
My last year at seminary, one of the theology professors taught a course called something like “Theories of the Atonement.” Over centuries, theologians have presented different explanations regarding the atonement,…