Every New Day
It’s Friday as I post this, so as you think about the weekend, here’s a song to start it off with the right frame of mind…
Category: Faith
The Elephant In the Interwebs
It doesn’t take reading many headlines to get the sense that darkness, confusion, and hopelessness seem to be on the rise in our culture. The signs are pretty much everywhere – ever-rising vitriol and outrage online, rising rates of gender dysphoria, drug addiction, increased incidences of suicide, and, most recently, the awful shootings in El […]
Hearers and Doers
Some “Cliff’s notes” from a book I’m currently reading: We need to speak in ways that free our listeners from a secular social imaginary, where the words “authority” and “obedience” suggest a way of living that is either outmoded or oppressive. What we need to communicate is that in following Jesus, disciples leave their bondage […]
Faith In the Context of a Hostile World
I’ve been following some RSS news feeds that I used to follow several years ago, just to get a bird’s-eye view of stories making headlines, and some of the comments those headlines generate. And lately I’ve noticed what seems like an up-tick in hostility towards religious faith in general, and traditional Christian beliefs in particular. […]
Yet Not I
A lot of modern “worship” music tends to be pretty hit and miss for me…mostly miss. But once in a while I’ll hear something that I actually like. The latest project from Australian-based CityAlight is one of those. It’s a short, 6-song EP called ‘Yet Not I’. I bought and downloaded it it from Amazon […]
Strangely Dim
For a while now, I really haven’t been very interested in the popular culture. It’s been slowly building for the past several years, but has become increasingly pronounced in the past year or two. Whatever’s trendy – fashion, music, TV, political memes – just hasn’t struck me as compelling enough to dive in. I have […]
Informing, Forming, and Transforming
The Homiletical Experiment
So as it turns out, I’m scheduled to preach in a few weeks while the pastor is on a much-deserved vacation. The theme is going to be discipleship – specifically, exploring these questions: 1. What does real-life discipleship look like (in contrast to the idealized version that too often gets emphasized in books on the […]
Props To the Bee, Once Again
I had been thinking this for the past few months, given where the culture, and much of the church, is headed. Hats off to the Bee for verbalizing what I’ve been thinking. From my perspective, at this moment, the Babylon Bee is a gift from heaven.
Unvarnished Truth
Some words of truth from Oswald Chambers to begin the week: When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has ever given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He […]