I’m a big fan of pastor and writer Tim Keller. Here’s a recent article on social media that I thought was interesting and insightful.
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The Spiritual Journey Part 2: Deconstruction (Or Playing Jenga with Your Faith)
Last time I talked about receiving the building blocks of faith, the stage of the spiritual journey we might call construction. How we begin to become people of faith because of other people of faith. Beliefs get handed down. And at least for a period of our lives, we accept these beliefs without difficulty or …
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No One “Goes” to Heaven
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven.N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church Now that I have your attention with the title of my post, let me …
Faith and Fear in a Time of COVID
I think it's an obvious scriptural truth that even people of faith experience fear. Otherwise, why would Jesus (and other biblical writers) encourage us not to worry so frequently? Surely, if people of faith were never going to worry or find themselves facing fear, the Bible wouldn't have to address it. Yet it does. All …
Humility
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.C.S. Lewis True gospel-humility means I stop connecting every experience, every conversation, with myself. In fact, I stop thinking about myself. The freedom of self-forgetfulness. The blessed rest that only self-forgetfulness brings.Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness I am far from a humble …
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