God, simply put, is. Without God nothing else would be. And without God nothing else would continue to be. We live in the presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Triune Godhead is the all-encompassing reality within which we live and move and have our being. To experience life is to …
Continue reading Living in the Reality of the Triune God ( Or Being Written into God’s Story)
This a slightly revised version of the sermon I preached yesterday. We're going through an Advent series based on the four themes of the Advent wreath and candles: hope, peace, joy, and love. “There is no peace on earth,” I said, “For hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will …
Let's take a brief inventory: Trinitarian versus Arian. Calvinism versus Arminianism. Infant baptism versus believer's baptism. Cessationism versus continuationism. Young earth creationism versus old earth creationism. Complementarianism versus egalitarianism. Church organs versus guitar and drums. Carpet versus tile. Ok. So those last couple of examples might have been a little facetious. Churches never fight over …
I can't recall a time when I wasn't interested in truth or God or church or Jesus. So much so that I have long understood the arc of my life through the lens of what God is doing (or wants to be doing) in me. Even in those seasons when I drifted away, not only …
There is a wide variety of literature in the books of the Old and New Testament: poems, historical narrative, letters, and Jewish apocalyptic writings, to name but a few. And, amazingly, God in his grace and wisdom divinely inspired the various authors of the Bible to reveal himself and his purposes through all of them. …
Continue reading Thoughts on Prayer: Learning to Pray from Scripture (Part 1)
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