Note: The following is one in a series of posts tagged “the people of god and…” These posts are intended to stir up conversation around the mission of God’s People in everyday life. Each will be a window into true stories of believers I know who are trying to live the good news. Read, think, [...]
Note: The following is the first in a series of posts tagged “the people of god and…” These will be written to stir up conversation around the mission of God’s People in everyday life. Each will be a window into true stories of believers I know who are trying to live the good news. Read, [...]
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will [...]
I won’t be posting regularly for the next 3-4 weeks, other than to send the occasional update on my cancer treatment.
We are currently on treatment 10/17. Truth be told, the past week or so has been somewhat physically demanding. The symptoms associated with the radiation treatment I receive daily arrived much earlier than expected for [...]
Alex From Montreal asked some great questions in the comments section of a recent post. I’d like to answer some of them more fully, and hopefully continue to round out the idea of Christians as a people who see Christ as Lord of everything.
Us Vs. Them
First, as I briefly mentioned in my reply in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
