Knowing about Abraham Kuyper will give your discipleship the nuance and complexity required to effectively discern how to bear witness to Christ in our diverse and secular culture today.
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That prayer is most likely to pierce heaven which first pierces one’s own heart
We are a long way from these people. Many years have passed. Culture has changed. People have changed. Or have they? My prayer is that we would read these prayers and realize how alike we are. We still have the same kinds of needs... The Puritans had trouble paying the...
Interview with Ken M. Penner
In the world of Jesus and Paul it was more common to speak more than one language. The words of Jesus and Paul are of course recorded in the New Testament in Greek. But that doesn’t mean Jesus said everything in Greek...
Interview with Richard Mouw
The importance of worldviewish thinking comes with the realization that while he is a personal Savior he is also more than that. We must also know him as the Lord and King over all things. This is what Abraham Kuyper captured so well when he said that every square inch...
Calling to The Deep from The Shallows: For Christians Who Don’t Read The Bible
The Bible of my grandfather rests prominently atop the filing cabinet in my central-Florida office. Leslie Ewell Clinkenbeard (“Pa” to his family) was a simple farmer and mechanic, but served the church faithfully as an elder for over 40 years. Four preachers officiated his funeral...
Interview with Sean Cole
I’m a very task-oriented person and I resonate with being told what to “do” in order to “get busy” serving Jesus. I didn’t have that great of a grasp on who I was in Christ. In seminary, one of my professors heavily emphasized “being before doing” and that has stuck...
Interview with Michael Bird
Knowing the world behind, in, and around the New Testament enables us – in movie terms – to see things in digital, colour, three dimensional precision. It adds clarity, depth, realism, and clarity. You just understand the New Testament better and are less prone to weird anchronisms...
Thoughts to those who identify as Christians but have given up on church
If you’re “done” with church and institutional religion, the main thing I want to say to you is: I get it. I’ve been there. I see it too. I’ve also experienced it – more than I wish were the case. Churches can be very proud, judgmental, inward-focussed, exclusivist social or...
Interview with Gerald McDermott
...even when sexual intercourse seems fulfilling to each partner, both are sometimes left with a thirst for more. If not physical fulfillment, then more emotional and spiritual union with each other.
The Consummate Orthodox Outsider
O’Connor’s intense religious devotion, along with her father’s death when she was only a teenager, and then her own long struggle with lupus, are some of the crucial elements of her life that formed and informed her writing and gave her the uncommon voice she is rightly celebrated for (and...
