Old Testament… Even in Judgment God Shows Mercy 19 Jun 2023 What is your instinctual thought about God's character? What is the first thing that comes to mind? How we think about the character God may reveal important things about our…
Theology Why Do We Disagree? (Part 5) 15 Jun 2022 Tradition often gets a bad wrap among Protestants, but in truth we can't escape it. We are all part of a larger tradition of theology and interpretation, and we sit…
Theology Why Do We Disagree? (Part 4) 14 Jun 2022 It's tempting to think about theology as a purely intellectual and academic exercise. What you feel about a doctrine is irrelevant, we may say. In truth, however, our emotions often…
Theology Why Do We Disagree? (Part 3) 9 Jun 20229 Jun 2022 A tool that all Bible readers must use in their study of Scripture is human reason. Carl F. Henry defined reason as "a divinely fashioned instrument for recognizing truth" (God,…
Theology Why Do We Disagree? (Part 2) 8 Jun 2022 If Scripture is our shared source of authority, then why does it seem like so many Christians disagree? This is the important question we are wrestling with in this series.…
Theology Why Do We Disagree? 7 Jun 2022 In John 17 Jesus prays for the unity of His followers. In Ephesians 4 Paul commands the church to strive for unity. Yet, even a cursory evaluation of the church…
Thanksgiving… A Theology of Thankfulness 25 Nov 2020 It’s Thanksgiving week, which means that this week’s blog should probably be about giving thanks. While it may seem like reflecting on gratitude is a bit obligatory this week, it’s…
Theology Theology and the Stories We Live By 25 Mar 2020 We are story-people. We live by various narratives and interpretive themes that give a coherence to our daily living. Our culture presents us with a plausibility structure which governs the…
Theology A Theology of Weakness 11 Jun 2019 Weakness is exceedingly difficult to admit. American Christians in particular like to be thought of as competent, strong, and independent. But the reality, of course, is that we are weak.…
Discipleship… The Bible Questions Us 22 Jan 2019 Good reading involves asking questions of the text. Any effort to understand must wrestle well with the words on the page, and the relationship between ideas. We must seek to…
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