What made my high school youth group so radical was how it immersed us in actual ministry experience.
Herb Reese
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I’m new to the world of grandfathering and like all Christian grandfathers, I want to be a good and godly one.
Cowboy churches have sprung up all over the country. This post describes their typical characteristics.
In our last New Commandment board meeting I was discussing whether or not I will retire when one of my board members mentioned that he doesn’t believe that Christians should retire. Wow! That was a new thought. But after I mulled it over later I realized that the concept of […]
“His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort.” 2 Peter 3:16 (Peter, writing about Paul’s epistles) I’ve been reading and meditating on Romans 7 and 8 lately and the thought struck me how intricate and closely reasoned Paul’s argument is. Not to […]
As an Evangelical Christian, I am not engaged in the process of making America Christian, but in the process of making Americans Christian. The first is political coercion. The second is the Great Commission. The first is cultural warfare with flesh and blood. The second is spiritual warfare with Satan […]
We live in a love-saturated culture. People everywhere talk about, write about (as I am now), sing about, make movies about, paint about…love. All. The. Time. But what we don’t live in is a Christian-love-saturated culture. Jesus tells us that there is a qualitative difference between Christian love and all […]
Today is the last day of my bedroom imprisonment. My consignment to household oblivion began a week ago Thursday with diarrhea. I didn’t think much of it until the next morning when I awoke with a sore throat and sinus congestion. “Who gets diarrhea with a sore throat and congestion?” […]
By all accounts, Richard and Cynthia Murphy were living the American dream in suburban Montclair, New Jersey. They and their two daughters had been residing for twenty years in a two-story colonial home that backed up to a wildlife preserve. According to their neighbors, Richard and Cynthia lived nondescript, ordinary […]
Ever since Erasmus decided that divorce could be a good thing, Christians and humanists have been dancing a five hundred year long intellectual, spiritual, and cultural tango. Often it looks more like a tangle than a tango, but for better or for worse, we are stuck with each other. Now […]