Tag Archives: church
Can We Know Jesus Without the Church?
I have a terrible habit of interrupting people. We’re part of a small group through our church that meets once a week, and I often get carried away and inevitably fail to remind myself not to speak over someone. It’s a selfish and prideful habit, stemming from thinking too highly of myself, as though what […]
Could Allah Be Our God Too?
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? There has been a lot of discussion about this recently after a Wheaton professor, Larycia Hawkins, proclaimed that Christians and Muslims do in fact worship the same God, a statement she made to explain her choice to wear a hijab for the length of Advent as an act of […]
Make Room
It is December 1st, a year has passed with groaning headlines, with triumph and failure, with peace and war, with love and wickedness. And after a year we come back to Advent again. We return to that stinking manger where the King was born. We stop amidst the chaos of the world and look again at […]
Gentle Conviction: Debate Like a Christian Should
The internet is an interesting and often frustrating place. It feeds our natural inclination for narcism, it is often illusory and deceptive, and it tends to feed a beast within us of hostility in disagreements where we write quickly, unkindly, and with an intent to win arguments and share our own opinions, rather than to discourse […]
The Hope of the Morning
There is a quietness in the morning, before sleepy voices greet me, where I have the opportunity in the stillness to dwell on hope. As little feet scurry down I breathe a moment and pray for these little boys in my care, I pray for the men they will, by God’s grace, become; and I […]
Oceans Never Fill 