"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ," (Ephesians 1:3, NASB) When I read this verse, there is something that haunts me. Paul tells me that I … [Continue reading]
Miles Stanford on Christian maturity
"It is a mistake to measure spiritual maturity merely by the presence of gifts. By themselves they are an inadequate basis for a man's lasting influence for God. They may be present and they may be valuable, but the Spirit's object is something far … [Continue reading]
That pesky sense of oughtness
Science has done an admirable job of exploring and describing the processes and functions of the things I see around me. I am not an astrophysicist but because of advances in science, it is possible for me to know more about the composition and … [Continue reading]
Does the church bring freedom or coercion?
A common perception of Christians is that we are a bunch of people who want to impose our form of Sharia law on the rest of the world. In other words, we are viewed as people who use coercion to get people to conform to a set of laws to which they … [Continue reading]
