“Christian community is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 30). God has called us not to walk alone in…
Merry Christmas! (Yes, it is September.) I jokingly say, with some grain of truth, that Christmas for me is not a season but a state of mind. When we have large Christmas Outreach events, it takes months of planning and…
When God makes a promise, we can believe it, even when we can’t see it. A case in point is in the account of Judah, where Jehoshaphat’s decision to intermarry with the house of Ahab had brought their murderous nature…
We only glimpse the back side of the love of God as it passes us, tucked in the cleft of the rock. Our understanding of love is so limited by our capacity to give and receive love, which is too…
“Spiritual Punctuation” is one of the chapter titles in Paul Wolfe’s insightful book, My God Is True! His point is that the Scriptures attest to both the uncertain things we encounter through living in a sin-filled world (Proverbs 27:1 “Do…
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