I have been formulating several entries for the blog in recent weeks, along the lines of identifying modern cults and idols. Those posts may yet come, if I have the courage to post them.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to
For the last couple of years, I’ve been using an absurdly long hashtag in some of my posts on social media, #approachingtetelestai. The words for me have taken on deep meaning as I have
As I say in my “About Me” page on this blog, I am a historian by vocation at present. I started in that work about eight and a half years ago. I came to
For two years early in my seminary days, I lived in the Denver, Colorado area. I moved there when I was 23, and my roommate was a close friend who was also going to
Today, I want to reflect briefly about guilt in the circles I walk in. As part of the way my life is structured, I have the blessed opportunity to relate to both believers and
Hello out there to all my friends in sanctification land. Hope all is well with you. Today’s dispatch from the road is all about authority. When you read that, did you cringe just a
10 “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If then you have not been faithful in the
There is nothing worse than what “ought to be.” So much agony in this life is wrapped up in the little word “if.” I’ve been thinking for the past several weeks about my tendency
1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,