Grounded
When something is taken away, Satan often pries his slender head between a person and the things that should save them. He fangs the venom of shame into the lifeblood of our family, friends, job and church. Shame seems to course through them, and, for a time, it looks as if an antidote will never […]
We are writing in a time when the “theologies of …” are becoming as countless as snowflakes in my February driveway. Tragically, believers today will have a ready theology on fadish topics like sexual identity or carbon capture technologies before even beginning to study what it means for man, who is a sinful creature made […]
It is a way in, a key. It is something that can be handed down to the new Christian as the first bread of the faith. It can be recited by the faithful everyday for decades as it moves from lips to heart and hands and feet. It is the oldest confession of the faith. […]
Christianity is a religion, not a philosophy. Our view of the universe is that of dramatic picture-thinking rather than abstract metaphysics: God is a personal Creator and King; the world is the scene of creation and redemption; and Christ is the Chief Person of that drama, the Messiah who reconciles the world to God. It […]