God is Faithful
This coming June, my wife and I will celebrate 16 years of marriage. The time has flown by like the blink of an eye. We’ve had our share of “ups and downs” – dark valleys and beautiful mountaintops. … One word leads the melody of happy matrimony: Faithfulness.
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Take the Step
“Take the step!” I can still hear the words of the slightly irritated Drill Instructor clanging across my memory. He continued in the face of the reluctant young man, “Step off the edge! You can do this!”
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Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas: BOOK REVIEW
Curtis Chang, seasoned campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Tufts, M.I.T., and Harvard, believes we face an “epochal challenge,” namely, common strategies for communicating the gospel of Christ are not effective in the postmodern era (p. 10, 38). A sea change has occurred. He writes, “…postmodernism threatens the church’s existing paradigms and harmony with the broader society. . . .
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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling – BOOK REVIEW
The evils of the culture are often decried from the pulpit and among conservative commentators. “Our culture is going down the drain,” more than one concerned parent has quipped. As a pastor, I admit the moniker “culture” has been the proverbial whipping boy in various talks and sermons that have passed through my lips. Certainly, the cultural trends across North America appear to be veering further away from Christian morality and ethics. However, according to Andy Crouch in his landmark work, Culture Making, thinking of ‘culture’ as merely an idea or trend is highly myopic. . . .
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Sweet Freedom
Freedom’s sweet flavor blows within the breeze. Yet one hardly notices its power until the distinctive taste is suddenly gone.
Despite our many malefactions, idiosyncrasies, and divisive political concerns, I’m still overwhelmed with thankfulness to God for the many freedoms we enjoy as citizens of the United States of America.
Independence isn’t cheap. Freedom is never free, as the well-worn song goes. Yet taking these gifts for granted is all-too-easy for us Americans.
When we taste sweetness every day, we’re eventually inoculated to its delight. . . . .
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Your Wisdom Quotient
Having a strong intellect is a good thing, yet there is an inherent danger in touting our mental powers or relying on human intelligence. A person may have a high IQ and be missing the essential ingredient for the soil of becoming spiritually mature – to grow in the faith and in the likeness of Jesus. The measure of one’s intelligence does not indicate the measure of one’s spiritual maturity or usefulness in God’s mission. . . .
