Most Christians are familiar with the scene when Jesus is baptized and the Spirit descends “like…

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you…

By definition, Evangelical believers believe in the authority of Scripture, but what does that mean in…

“Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or…

Reading: Psalm 2:4-8 I imagine that if creation can groan (Rom. 8:22), it can also laugh….

Humanity’s rejection of God’s right to rule began in the Garden (Gen. 3:1-7). It advances in…

Reading:  1 Corinthians 13:4-7 The context of the “love chapter,” as 1 Corinthians 13 is commonly…

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us…

It just happened that my reading of a collection of essays by Miroslav Volf titled, Against…

Reading:  John 6 The opening scene of John 6, the “feeding of the 5,000,” results in…

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and…

A few years ago, in one weekend, I had two paradoxical experiences. The first, on Saturday…

Reading: Genesis 11:1-9 Babel, also translated Babylon, shows up in Genesis and continues through the course…

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”…

In a consumerist age, a believer’s call to Christian sexuality is a call to resistance. This…