In my readings, it seems the majority of those who think footwashing should not be considered an ordinance focus on three things: That footwashing (as opposed to Baptism and celebration of the Eucharist) appears only once in the Gospels; that footwashing is not practiced in Acts; and that there is no detailed instruction regarding when [...]
The church’s telos, imposed by God is to bear witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is neither a set of ideas or a system of belief, but the grace (both judgment and redemption) of God made known in human lives. ~ From: Why Church Matters, by Jonathan R. Wilson *Behest: an urgent prompting [...]
Shawn and I are undertaking a fast. For at least the first three days, this includes water only. I tend to think “fasting” from other things, like television, etc, isn’t really fasting, but we are also going evening-TV free for the next 21 days as well. The food thing hasn’t been as difficult for me [...]
It’s been almost 2 years since the publication of James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, and if the initial tide of commentary/debate/criticism has ebbed, still, it seems this book will continue to exert a commanding influence over the ways in which Christians consider [...]
“We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed… Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.”~Paul Mazer, Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s [...]
I’m constantly fascinated with the “fine line.” On a grand scale, cosmologists hypothesize that had certain physical constants varied – by seemingly infinitesimal amounts – no mind would be here to ask, “Why is there not nothing?” On the moral front, Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke compellingly of the fine line separating good and evil that “passes [...]
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"The local church is the hope of the world." Husband to Shawn. Dad to Matthew and Simone. Grandy to Kianna, Mica, Aiden, Cassie. Willing participant in the Divine Conspiracy. Colossians 3:1-17.