Efficiency in Churches
Churches should take money seriously, but they should do so based on Biblical ideas of stewardship rather than modern ones of efficiency.
Discipleship is inefficient. It’s slow, it’s messy, it can involve going the wrong way for large periods of time, it’s painful, and it always involves suffering. Berry argues that we have come to understand nature to engage in production rather than work in cycles. Churches don’t ‘produce’ anything, but I think if we think of... Continue Reading
Meet the Real Luther: Table Talk
Table Talk is a collection of Luther’s sayings amongst his friends.
Luther is most known for bringing Reformation light to the Church through faithful doctrine. How better could God demonstrate that than by using a man like Luther to proclaim it? Seeing all these flaws, against the backdrop of such grace, is cause to realize this truth. God truly justifies the ungodly, lifts them up as... Continue Reading
Aelred of Rievaulx – A Theologian of Love
Friendship is an aspect of this love, a participation in God’s love, which leads us to Him. Aelred applies this view to all aspects of life, including all social and political interactions.
As it is often the case with medieval saints (and others in our varied Christian past), we might not agree with everything Aelred wrote. He has been accused of being vague on some issues and unduly soft on others. But his teachings on love and friendship are pastoral and thought-provoking, and his prayers are moving... Continue Reading
Coach to Return to High School Football Field After 7-Year Court Battle Over Prayer There
The Supreme Court, which heard arguments in the case, ruled in Kennedy’s favor in June 2022.
Now, Kennedy is inviting all Americans to join him Sept. 1 and take a knee to celebrate a national night of prayer. Kennedy’s story of faith and determination captured the attention of the nation and compelled the football coach to write a book sharing his story and explaining why he chose to spend years in and... Continue Reading
My Coldest Night and Warmest Truth
I would always remember that God is good.
People often tell me not to let the death of my brother define me. While I would not have his death be the only thing someone knows about me, it is inevitable that it had changed me. That cold night was one where I experienced something I would not wish on my worst enemy. But there... Continue Reading
The Coming Persecution
This trial isn’t just persecution against Päivi, it is persecution against Jesus and his Church.
LGBT ideology cannot co-exist with Christian theology. It cannot compete with the loving, hopeful, freeing gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, it suppresses Christianity through persecution. It arrests Christians for preaching the gospel. It criminalises speech against homosexuality and transgenderism. And it charges people like Päivi Räsänen for quoting the Bible on social media. Don’t be... Continue Reading
Constantine’s Foil
How peace in Rome led to persecution in Persia.
Sometime before 325, the now-Christian Roman emperor Constantine wrote Shapur a letter, in which he encouraged the young shah to embrace Christianity.9 Constantine pointed out the presence of many Christians in Persia and urged Shapur to treat them well: “Now, because your power is great, I commend these persons to your protection; because your piety... Continue Reading
Review: Losing Our Religion
Sturm and Drang with little substance.
Losing Our Religion is an autobiography disguised as an indictment of evangelicalism, and not a very ecumenical one at that. Moore is not interested in convincing the reader. He does not make arguments but rather opts for emotive reflections, flippant diagnostics. It is a self-indulgent project and others of Moore’s sentiment and experience indicate the... Continue Reading
Not Without Prayer
Did God heal my child?
As Nicholas’s third birthday approached, and with nothing provoking us to sense anything outside the ordinary, my wife, Jana, happened to notice a small number of brown splotches on his skin. Their emergence had been subtle; vaguely circular or oval in shape, and not especially large, they had surfaced at seemingly random spots on his... Continue Reading
The Arrival of American Presbyterianism: We’ve Been Dating It All Wrong
At Jamaica, Long Island, an organized Presbyterian congregation was established by 1662, probably the first permanent Presbyterian church in the new world.
Presbyterians were founding congregations in the New World as early as the 1630s. Denton himself had established “a Presbyterian church” in Hempstead, Long Island in 1641 even though he was preaching “to a Presbyterian congregation from the first arrival, in 1630.” Pre-1700s Presbyterianism in America is shrouded in mystique. Some would say it didn’t... Continue Reading
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