Archive for the ‘Church’ Category

A Few Thoughts on Noah

I went to visit my cousin and his wife this last weekend, which meant I got to visit their church. I always enjoy visiting a different local community of believers, if only to experience a different portion of the body of Christ. The sermon was on the Genesis account of Noah and the flood, and the preacher...
July 2nd, 2012 | Church, Featured, Protestant, Religion | Read More

The Luke 10 Manual by Steve and Marylin Hill: Additional Thoughts

This is part two of my engagement with The Luke 10 Manual by Steve and Marylin Hill. In this post, I will summarize the conclusions that I presently hold after thinking more about the book. The danger of reading any single book is that you will mistake it for the final word in a conversation composed...
June 25th, 2012 | Book Reviews, Church, Featured, Media, Religion | Read More

Is the Bible Really Enough?

Sometimes people say that the Bible is the only book we need to fulfill the Christian life. Ultimately it must be said that even less than the Bible is enough, which is really to say that something more than the Bible is enough: God himself. If God is not present here and now, if we cannot reliably consult...
June 21st, 2012 | Church, Featured, Protestant, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

Stranger in a Strange Land in Church: Expatriate Christianity

I am an English teacher in South Korea. One of the primary reasons that I go to church here is to save myself from completely flipping my lid because I do not have anyone else to talk to in English. The other reason is, of course, to get spiritually fed in the language I think and feel in. Although I...
June 11th, 2012 | Church, Culture, Featured, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

The Bible Is the Seed, Not the Fruit

In Romans 10 we learn that the word of God is how people come to faith. God’s word is the seed that is sown and blossoms into faith in people’s lives, but what comes out of a seed is overwhelmingly stuff-that-is-not-more-seeds. There are the roots, trunk, and branches of a tree; then there...
June 7th, 2012 | Church, Featured, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

Radical to the Roots

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “radical”? You can think of math (square roots), extreme politics (the radical right or left), grammar, or perhaps more rarely, roots. When I hear the word “radical”, I think of revolution and extreme difference. What then of radical...
June 6th, 2012 | Church, Featured, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

Contraception, Encouragement, and Affirmation

Last week, Matthew Lee Anderson published an article through Christianity Today arguing that Churches Shouldn’t Push Contraceptives to Their Singles. I thought the post was thoughtful and interesting, and shared it with a few friends. It helped start a couple of helpful conversations, so there...
May 2nd, 2012 | Abortion, Bioethics, Church, Culture, Evangelicals, Family Issues, Featured, Religion, Reproductive Technologies | Read More

Pastors and Close Friends

I quoted some statistics from Christianity Today in a post awhile back, but the point was to address another article written about those statistics. I was looking at the stats again, and another figure caught my eye.
December 19th, 2011 | Church, Culture, Featured, Friendship, Religion | Read More