After Satan’s Temptations, What Do You Do? Can You Do Better?
We often go directly from stimulus to reaction, but we can learn proactive approaches we can take to respond to temptation with a little bit of time and practice.
Category: Gospel Fare
Can Our Different Perspectives on Jesus Be a Strength?
Our inclination in a conflicted America is to see any significant difference as a potential threat. The New Testament can remind us not to overlook the value of competing views on even the most important question of all.
Why Jesus?
Do we really need to be saved? That’s a question we’re hearing from more and more people. And it’s an important one to take seriously as we enter a brand new year.
Living as the Angels Do
Even with so much suffering around us, I rejoice to have witnessed much suffering tangibly relieved by real-life, creative ministries to the poor. What more is still possible?
Angels All Around Us
A Christmas present from our team to the many who are grieving the loss of a loved one this holiday season. May you rejoice to know what is coming and feel peace at what is already here.
What Shall We Give?
Would we be willing to give up our ideas this Christmas? Or is it too hard to believe in a God that asks hard things of us—unpopular things and countercultural things?
Church Finances and the Doubting Soul
Is there a dollar amount of donations to the poor sufficient to allay concerns about how the faith spends its money?
Why Jesus As An Unborn Baby Matters
We don’t often speak of the short period when Jesus was an unborn baby Himself. Maybe we should?
Why did God Punish Ancient Israel?
It wasn’t just apathy or failure to perform religious ceremonies for which ancient Israel faced God’s judgments. It was also what they failed to do for each other.
Disciples, Activists & the Drama Triangle
Ahmad Corbitt’s October 2022 talk to military chaplains challenged not just secular-minded activists, but also a common set of stories sometimes held by believing and sustaining church members.
Convenient Spirituality and an Inconvenient God
Why have so many come to embrace a spirituality devoid of any specific bids upon our hearts and minds? Could our elevation of “self” above anything and everything else have anything to do with it?
Is Our Exercise of Agency Always Intentional?
When we equate agency with being merely choice, we miss out on how human agency manifests in rich ways that are not always conscious and deliberately chosen.
