DiscipleshipA Devotional Reflection on George Herbert’s Poem, Love III
Through all the ups and downs of his own faith journey, this saving love of God has been the truest and deepest thing he has known about God, and about himself.
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DiscipleshipThe Foundation of Our Calling
Studying theology can be hard––hard on us psychologically and spiritually, personally as well as interpersonally. We can find out more about ourselves than we ever wanted to know. Yet we can learn more about God than we could ever dream.
TheologyThe Yoke That Bears Us Up
We are to take Jesus’ yoke upon ourselves, surrendering willfulness in self-regard as we undertake the life work to which Jesus calls us.
Discipleship“That’s The Spirit!” Or, What Exactly Does Spiritual Formation Form?
Introduction: A Working Hypothesis “That’s the spirit!” is a common rather than a Christian idiom, something you might say in order to encourage someone to persevere in some endeavor. Generally speaking, people are much more comfortable using such expressions than explaining what spirit actually means, or in specifying that to which it actually refers. Pastors…
TheologyHumility as a Reformed Value
What does humility have to do with teaching the Bible? Much.
TheologyA Theology of the Ordinary
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life––your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life––and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into…
TheologyOn Reconciliation – Honoring the Work of Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus . . . has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Eph. 2: 13–14 Can you hear the good news in that? Christ Jesus has broken down the dividing wall of hostility! That is not a faraway promise. That is not good hope for…
TheologyThe Source of Revolution
October 31, 1517 is the 500th anniversary of a revolution. It began when a young, obscure theologian in an insignificant town in Germany rediscovered the radical grace of the gospel. It soon set the world ablaze. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed a copy of his 95 theological challenges to the door of the church…
TheologyLooking Back, Looking Forward: The Protestant Reformation
It is not the church as an institutional structure, but the “most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God, the true treasure of the church” which offers the free gift of forgiveness.
DiscipleshipIf I were a Church School Teacher Again
Observation reveals that religious instruction is still very much a matter of conveying religious facts, and that this concern with religious knowledge is a Protestant characteristic. If I were a church school teacher again, I would seek constantly to emphasize the importance of Christian duties.
DiscipleshipThe Catechized Prodigal: When Covenant Children Lose Their Way
“Train the child for the path of his life, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
TheologyA Reformation Day Sermon
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one should boast.” Eph. 2:8–9 If you have ever worked waiting tables, you know how tough that job really is. Your memory has to be…