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Jesus in the Room [Poem by Mom]

We all need more love than we deserve. And it is undeserved love that transforms us into who we should be. It is love that frees us to acknowledge sin..

The Arts, Biblical Theology, and Proof I’m Not a Complete Philistine

My last post generated some helpful feedback about the place of the arts in the Christian life. In that post I took an exegetical approach to the topi..

The Arts and the Absence of Jesus

I am a house church guy who likes cathedrals. My spiritual forebears in the Reformation include some who smashed statues and images and others who ban..

A Is for Atlanta

God willing, our family will soon be moving to Atlanta, Georgia. In my last post I dropped some hints about us moving to “really bad farmland,&#..

Lot the Big-Time Mennonite Farmer

You know the sermon is especially good when someone walks out crying half way through. Okay, the pain and tears unfortunately came from cramps and not..

Study Resources for Kings and Chronicles

Those of us who are using the Christian Light Publications Sunday School booklets will be studying excerpts from the OT books of Kings and Chronicles ..

Fresh Milling [Poem by Mom]

Do you look like Jesus today? Listen to Paul’s testimony and promise: And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being tran..

Articles of Church Membership

When you think about “church”, do you think about “a” church or “the” church? Or both? Which most often? And does ..

A Fellowship of Differents — McKnight (Review)

McKnight, Scot. A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God’s Design for Life Together. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2014). 265 pp...

Remember the Resurrection, to Keep it Central

Thursday is an excellent day to remember Christ’s resurrection! “The Resurrection changed everything… “If there is a power gr..