Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary
Folding laundry. Weeding the garden. Cooking dinner. Changing diapers. Work in the home can seem so ordinary. Does any of it matter? Is there meaning in our most mundane moments at home? When the work of the home fills our days, it is easy to get disillusioned and miss God’s grand purpose for our work. As image bearers of the Creator who made us to work, we contribute to society, bringing order out of chaos and loving God through loving others—meaning there’s glory in every moment. Join us as we sit down with Courtney Reissig, author of “Glory in the Ordinary: Why Your Work in the Home Matters to God” as she combats the common misconceptions about the value of at-home work—thus helping us see how Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary.
Before the Fall, we were all artists and poets
“Can our churches be beautiful again, and not just promote goodness and truth?... It’s one thing to make our work, our business, our arts and our political endeavors good and even ‘successful.’ It’s another to aspire to make them beautiful. It’s one thing to try educate and raise our children to be good and ‘successful,’ but it’s another to try to raise them to be beautiful.”
Listen in as we sit down with Makoto Fujimura, author of, “Art + Faith: A Theology of Making” and discuss the living and beautiful reality of God and His image bearers. Makoto gives no quarter mere Theology-as-a-hobby or for a truncated Gospel (or “plumbing theology”). In sitting down with Makoto we don’t get novel and new, rather, we get the original telos and tangibles that concern the implications of creation and new creation. This interview is for humans seeking full humanity.
By Steve Bishop
There is a wide range of varieties of what has loosely been termed Calvinistic philosophy. This family tree is an attempt to identify some of these strands and their relationships. Inevitably, it is an oversimplification...
He Named things We Pastors, Creatives and Rank-and-Files Couldn’t Name
“The Bible became alive to Him, it was not as some Elizabethan artifact but as a living book, appropriate for the gritty lives of butchers, cement layers, radio-preaching mothers, and the drunks who lounged in the alley behind his father’s Butcher shop. People around the world were picking up books with his name on it--picking them up and sensing they’d found a voice that spoke their language. Vast numbers of readers recognized in Eugene’s words a hunger they’d forgotten, a craving for an authentic encounter with God. They were hungry for a vision calling them into the wondrous expanse of a life that honored what it meant to be a beloved (yet finite) human living under the mercy of God. They found all this in the words of Eugene Peterson.”
The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck
Listen in as we sit down with Dr. Bruce Pass and discuss his book “The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck”. Here we are guided by the hand of Bavinck and Dr. Pass into a Theology that is no mere academic hobby but where Theology is a living-being animated by true religion. Like a heart this living-being pumps blood and life to the needed areas in the body. Dr. Pass shows us how Bavinck’s though that, much like the Universe is the center of the solar “system”, Christ is the center of the Christian theological system.
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Sam Storms is a Reformed Theologian who Speaks in Tounges and Is Not Insane
Sam Storms is a Reformed Pastor who speaks in tounges, has had visions, has seen healings, has heard propteic utterances and is convinced the Bible teaches that the spiritual gifts have not ceased and reminds Christians that we are commanded to pursue them.
Crawford Gibben (author of "An Introduction to John Owen") on John Owen's theology of plague, pandemic, suffering and the judgement of God
Owen had no doubt. The horrific combination of comets, plague, fire, and war proved that God was judging England. The mid-1660s were years of dark providences, which God sent when his “patience is abused,” his “warnings are despised,” and people believed themselves to be secure.
Biblical Clarity to the Person, Work, and Filling of the Holy Spirit
We may not even have the language to say “come Holy Spirit”, but we're saying, “God, I need you.” And I think that that cry actually is a cry that, if we actually understood, can help us to be open to how God might be present in, what we might...
How should I love others? A doctor’s story.
While this meditation is from the context of being a doctor it is predominantly about being a Christian in this world, about answering the call to be a light in darkness, to be salt in a spoiling world. One of the most important questions a Christian will have to answer...
Interview with Bruce Ashford
How does my faith inform the way I wash my cat? Well it means that maybe it encourages me to wash my cat every once in a while and take care of it. That is God's good creation. But it also encourages me not to wash it with more love...
Robert White (translator of the 1541 edition) on why Christians should read "The Institutes of the Christian Religion"
Faith cannot exist without knowledge, but knowledge by itself is neither saving faith nor transforming faith. Doctrine must descend from the head to the heart and take root there. It must, under God, change the way we think, feel, will and act; it must change the kind of people we...
Dr Les Hardin
I don’t want the chicken nuggets—the better parts chopped up, compressed, and given to me in bite-size portions. What’s more, I don’t want to be the kind of person who’s content with that—the little bits, un-nutritious, unfulfilling. I want the whole meal. I want to be the kind of person...
Reading the Bible Literally
Join us as we interview Dr John Walton (professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and one of the world's most prominent scholars and voices on Ancient near east background to the Bible) with crucial questions like 1. How do we read/interpret the creation account (literal 24 hours or something...
by Michael R. Wagenman
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.