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• Lifestyle Repentance: Giving is the Way to Prepare for Jesus

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  I’ve been thinking about John the Baptist, his vision for repentance and the way to prepare for Jesus. The more I immerse myself in his message, I find that he’s far more concerned with giving things away, cutting loose our burdens and bad habits, and committing to live simply without oppressing others. That ...
  15 hours ago

• Lifestyle Repentance: The Costs of Preparing for Jesus

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  After John the Baptist called out the people coming to him as frauds, it seems that many made an appropriate response: “What should we do?” John lists a series of actions they should do in order to prepare themselves for God. These seem like fairly obvious instructions. Stop stealing, give from your abundance, ...
  1 day ago

• Lifestyle Repentance: The Bottom Up Gospel

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  John and Jesus started their ministries in the wilderness, away from the centers of power. They didn’t necessarily aim to attract the elite or the powerful religious establishment. They waited for the temple establishment to come to them as they preached and ministered, rather than going to the temple to work on ...
  3 days ago

• How to Recognize When Truth Becomes Our Idol

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  Though it doesn’t always happen  intentionally, truth is capable of creating boundaries around ourselves and our fellow Christians. While I believe that truth, creeds, and biblical lessons are vitally important for Christians, committing to preserving truth over acting it out can have a series of unintended ...
  1 week ago

• How Christians Can Preserve the Truth by Acting On It

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  I’ve been asking myself a few questions lately that I’d like to play with here, spurred on in part by Harvey Cox’s book The Future of Faith (which I don’t necessarily agree with as a whole, but I find a great read): What did Jesus leave us? Why did he leave those things and not others? How far dare ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Christian Quest for Legitimacy and Influence in All the Wrong Places

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  We’ve seen Christians latch on to enough movie stars, beauty queens, and politicians to realize that we are in the midst of legitimacy crisis. This is rooted in wanting to be viewed as legitimate, powerful, and influential in both our government and in popular culture. Our situation speaks to not only an identity ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Life God Wants to Change May Be Your Own

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  A friend once shared the story of praying for his brother to follow Jesus. He’d been praying for years, inviting his brother to his Baptist church from time to time. It weighed deeply on his heart. One day he prayed a little differently: “Lord, just save my brother, I don’t care which denomination he goes to. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Four Things Every Church Needs to Do

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  After participating in a variety of church meetings over the years, I wanted to share a little theory I’ve been working on based on some experiences, some ongoing thoughts, and some conversations. I don’t want this to devolve into whining or castigating everyone who doesn’t meet whatever my standard may be. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dealing with Racial Insensitivity: Becoming Catalysts for Reconciliation

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  Yesterday’s post brought up a lot of great discussion in the comment section that serves God’s Kingdom and Christian unity. I’m about to wrap up a series of posts from the book of Romans, and it’s apparent in that book that in bringing salvation to all through Christ, God was also reconciling two races or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Glorifying The Football Instead Of The Quarterback

  
  The Cruciform Life Blog — Authority: 400
  “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”  (1 Corinthians 3:5-7, ESV)We’ve been studying 1 Corinthians in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Luther and Media

  
  Reformed Forum — Authority: 518
  Given that Reformation Day is near, we thought it would be time to focus our attention on the monk with the mallet.  Carl Trueman , Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary speaks about Martin Luther and media.  Luther’s is an ...
  5 weeks ago

• When We Should Not Debate Theology

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 490
  I recently finished studying the book of Romans, and I can’t shake Romans 14, as well as a few other related verses where Paul tells the Romans to stop fighting over peripheral matters. The challenge it seems is that others would not agree with his assessment that issues such as Jewish laws and customs were ...
  5 weeks ago

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