Discipline. When we first hear the word discipline it does not ordinarily bring to mind thoughts of joyful anticipation. When we think of discipline we don’t think of luxuriating in a warm bubble bath by candlelight to soft music. We think instead about being sent to our rooms or losing privileges. We tend to think […]
[In anticipation of my conversation later this week with Miroslav Volf, I wanted to re-up this interview I did with him in 2016 and the audio from another conversation in 2017. Enjoy!] Miroslav Volf is a well-known theologian, leader and author to talk with us about how Christians can live out their faith in our […]
We are living in a “selfie” culture of self-centered self-identification, self-promotion, and self-glorification. It could not be more contrary to the Christian worldview wherein the self yields always and in all ways to the identity of Christ. The very word- identity- is a loaded one today. Wrapped up in layers of politics and isms and […]
Moloch was the false god of the Canaanites who required child sacrifice. He’s got a new altar in New York, he’s got worshipers and he’s doing business as Autonomy and Choice. On January 22, 2019 the state of New York enacted a law allowing for abortion up to a baby’s due date. How are we […]
Seth Godin is a blogger, author, speaker and – to use a term with which I am not entirely comfortable – guru. People hang on his every word. So, what did Seth Godin say today? We’ve been doing it for a long time. “The Gods must be crazy.” The easiest way for a human to deal […]
It started as a walk in the park… Half way between my house and where I pick up one kid from school, there’s a big park called Percy Warner. It’s a great place to walk on a beautiful day – and yesterday was a beautiful day. As I walked through the winter woods completely barren […]
Think of this as an exercise in taking a year-end inventory of your life and cultivating the spiritual soil for an abundant harvest in the year ahead. Taking stock of your spiritual life Get out your 2018 calendar, your journal, your Bible and your check register. Slowly, soberly look through them and take stock. Bible […]
Philippians 2 reminds us that after His humiliation, Jesus experiences exultation. “God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is […]
The Incarnation of the Living God Question 47 of the Larger Catechism asks, “How did Christ humble Himself in His conception and birth?” Reflecting both John 1:18 and Philippians 2, the answer confesses that “Christ humbled Himself in His conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God in the bosom […]
As we approach the celebration of Christmas, it seems appropriate to seek to unwrap the mystery and the meaning of the manger. From the perspective of reasoned thought or a rational mind, the Bible’s claim that the God of the Universe, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, took on human flesh by being born of […]