Jesus – Now 50% Off by Justin Hiebert
I recently had a conversation with some friends that focused on the ways we have cheapened discipleship, and I immediately connected it to our insatiable desire for a good deal. We always desire to...
View ArticleA Disembodied Gospel and Learning to Walk in the Darkness
A disembodied gospel is really no gospel at all. The whole idea of removing oneself from the world is foreign to the gospel and Jesus, who lived in the trenches and streets of everyday life. How can we...
View ArticleThe Holiday of Advent: Consumerism and Learning to Re-Tell Time by Jonathan...
In school my son has learned to measure time. In being taught this skill he has now been given another way in which to make sense of his reality. This struck me the last time I went to Chicago for my...
View ArticleJesus, Enemy-Love and the Church: A Call to Put Away our Swords, Stop...
Christians are all too often known more for what they stand against, than what they stand for. Contemporary enemies, as we have defined them at least, are the people and issues we fight against in the...
View Article2 Things Christians Should Consider in Our Public Use of the Phrase ‘Keep...
Keep Christ in Christmas is the slogan of choice for many Christians during this time of year. We see the phrase used all over the place – from Facebook posts, Twitter feeds and Instagram pictures, to...
View ArticleReview – Burning Questions and Faith: Exploring Where the Evidence Leads (DVD)
Burning Questions is a new six-part DVD series produced by Talon Productions and Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, and is hosted by Dr. Andy Bannister, the Director for RZIM Canada. In this very...
View ArticleWe Can Be So Right and Still Be So Wrong: My Theological Journey from...
My theological journey has less to do with changes made to specific theological categories, though many such changes have occurred, and more to do with the posture, mood and style in which I engage in...
View ArticleThe Greatest Story NEVER Told with Leonard Sweet
Image – Story – Soundtrack –> this is how our culture communicates. We, on the other hand, have versitis. We’ve memorized the verses of the Bible, but not the story. Yet, the Bible is a story – a...
View ArticleWhat’s the Plan? The Adjustment Bureau and the Question of Free Will
The most common questions about God in contemporary society center less on whether or not God exists and more on what kind of God exists. And, by way of extension, what kind of world did God chose to...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Seriously Reconsider the Whole Idea Behind the ‘Altar Call’
Asking people to make a decision to have their sins forgiven, but spending little time calling them to become disciples, is like telling someone half a story, while leaving them to figure out the rest...
View ArticleA King and His Kingdom: Relearning the Story of Jesus From the Ground Up
Sometimes, in order to learn about something, we have to (un)learn all of the things we thought we knew about that something first. In our pursuit of Jesus, sometimes we have to (un)learn what we...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Seriously Reconsider the Whole Idea Behind the Altar Call:...
Inviting people to embrace the kingdom of God where Christ is worshiped as King is a community event. The Church, as the primary expression of Jesus’ kingdom on earth, is called to live out the...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots: The Cross, the Sermon and Discipleship
What does it mean to follow Jesus? What does following Jesus look like? Following Jesus, regardless of when and where you live, will always look the same because it is based in God’s demonstration of...
View ArticleIf God is Always With Us – Why Do We Ask Him to “Visit Us”?
Our experience of God should always have a role to play in our attempts to better understand God and God’s activity in the world. Experience can help us determine the validity of a certain theological...
View ArticleRedefining Holiness Jesus-Style: Transforming the World from the Inside-Out
When many of us first embraced Christianity, we almost immediately began to define our journey by the things we could no longer do. The words ‘not’, ‘do not’ and ‘cannot’ came to characterize not only...
View ArticleInspired – But NOT Equal: The Bible is the Witness – NOT the Word
I love to read scripture, but I don’t worship the Bible. To worship the Bible is to make the Bible into something it was never meant to be – an idol. The Bible is not THE Word of God, but the inspired...
View ArticleWorship is Like Monday Morning
From a Christian perspective, when I say the word ‘worship’ what immediately comes to mind? Music? Singing? Songs? Sunday? Worship teams? Lights? Dark auditoriums? Professional musicians? Set list?...
View ArticleWhen Christians Engage in a Battle Over Words: Letting Go of the Defend and...
The problem is simple – the church has developed a defend and conquer mentality, rather than a dialogue and conversation mentality. How do I know this? After years of working within the Church and...
View ArticleWhy Do Bad Things Happen Even After We Pray?
I’ll begin by asking this question – what kind of world did God choose to create? While a number of models have been proposed in response to this question, many of which deserve attention, I’ll...
View ArticleNot Everything in the Bible is Biblical
For so many of us, the Bible has become little more than a book of spiritual formulas and incantations that, if applied properly, will enable us to find success, happiness, wealth and personal...
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