Truly, we find ourselves in the season of holidays. While I once demanded this season is only about one holiday—Christmas—I can’t help but see that, more and more, I was deluded by a cultural message ingrained in me. Power, dominance, my way, or else… More than ever, marketing schemes have banked on Christians inserting theirContinue reading “Christmas or Nativity”
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Traces of Hatred
I am desperate to weed out the anger, the hatred, the prejudice from my heart. There is nothing in the way of Christ that looks like the climate today—the twisting of politics and doctrine, the excuses for hate speech and elitism. Why is it so easy to fall into the tossing waves of this worldContinue reading “Traces of Hatred”
Traces of Hatred
I am desperate to weed out the anger, the hatred, the prejudice from my heart. There is nothing in the way of Christ that looks like the climate today—the twisting of politics and doctrine, the excuses for hate speech and elitism. Why is it so easy to fall into the tossing waves of this worldContinue reading “Traces of Hatred”
Who do they say that I am?
“Note that he is not asking them their own opinion. Rather, he asks the opinion of the people. Why? In order to contrast the opinion of the people with the disciples answer to the question “But who do you say that I am?” In this way, by the manner of his inquiry, they might beContinue reading “Who do they say that I am?”
True Worship
Yesterday, I sat in church for the first time. Not really. But if a worship service is truly about worshipping God, then it might have been a time of only few for me. Over the past forty + years, somewhere along this Christian walk, I have made my experience of church about me. My lensContinue reading “True Worship”
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