We have now 100% confirmed type 1A lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This is fantastic news: normal cancer can travel through your body through all kinds of pesky cancer transporter beams, but lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma has to progress sequentially down the Oregon Trail of your Lymph Node system. That makes it containable and predictable. Which is good.
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As the practical implications of a worldview without purpose come to bear on everyday society, the ever-salient, holistic gospel of God’s glory that makes all things new in Christ must be proclaimed and lived in His body, the church.
Crown Fountain at Millennium Park is just one of the many freaky cool places where Chicagoans can take refuge during Chicago’s hotter months. Yeah, yeah, I know standing there gawking at it probably brands me a tourist. Maybe it might seem less cool when we’ve been in Chicago for 20 years. Maybe. I doubt it.
The good news of the gospel has relevance for every aspect of society, but western culture would confine it to the private sphere. Arguably, Christians in America have spent too much time making political war on this aspect of western culture instead of laboring to proclaim the beauty, glory and reign of God which redeems [...]
Pastor Aaron shares some statistics that show what younger generations think of Christianity, and how this perception is a far cry from the historical witness of the church. Note: Many of these statistics come from this relatively new book.
Over the past week I have been undergoing a series of tests which will help us stage my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. These have ranged from an extraction of bone marrow from my pelvis (”You would feel like your midsection is being crushed, but instead you’ll be asleep”), a CT scan (”This chalk is actually drinkable. And [...]
We’ve been talking quite a bit about the assumed boundary between the private sphere of religion and morality, and the public sphere of consensus facts. All beliefs in the private sphere can be tolerated so long as they remain in the domain of the private sphere. This article in Newsweek illustrates this issue perfectly. The [...]
Whose job is the proclamation of the good news? Who gets to tell the world about Christ’s rescue of humanity? Who is ideally suited for it? As many retreat from culture we must re-examine the Biblical answer to these questions.
The people of God live, think, feel and speak the gospel. Their lives have a natural direction and purpose as they embody the good news of Christ to all creation. Here Pastor Aaron talks about our purpose as the royalty in God’s kingdom. This is the first in a series of bite-sized videos taken from [...]
For any of you that haven’t heard, I (Aaron) have been undergoing a series of clinical tests after discovering a lump in front of my right ear. After one inconclusive MRI and two inconclusive biopsies, our specialist decided to remove the lump so that it could be tested directly. The doctor called us on Wednesday [...]
