A person’s appetite for and willingness to change can frequently be a matter of personality – some people are by nature more conservative in their personality and tend to resist change by nature, while others have personalities that are more progressive and tend...
The question of whether Christians must vote is a hotly contested one in the Christian church; and while there are no explicit commands in Scripture to vote we are commanded to seek the good of the city in which we dwell. Christians, like all citizens, are faced with...
Our youth group is partnering with Samaritan’s Purse to provide shoebox gifts which will be distributed to millions of children throughout the world who have never received a gift! Shoeboxes, instructions, including gift ideas, and labels are available in...
The people Jesus is talking to in John 8 really do believe that they are free, in spite of the fact that they really are under the thumb of the Roman Empire. But instead of framing their problem as a purely political problem, Jesus says that the problem at its root is...
In Christianity there are two different, but related, senses of the word confession. On the one hand, there is a confession of faith – the public and private statement of what Christians believe. On the other hand, there is also a confession of sin – the...
The book of Ecclesiastes' raw outlook on the fallen human condition sees the pursuit of money and material goods as an empty waste, a vanity. But then, in the next breath, it will turn towards the enjoyment of the things money can buy as genuinely worthwhile. For...
The discussion between Jesus and the rich young man revolves around the young man's inability to see the Law of God as anything more than a way for humans to display their goodness or their badness. But Jesus calls him to see the Law, instead, as a display of the...
Every human belief or opinion is based upon a presupposition – a faith commitment that cannot be proven but can only be assumed. For instance, the difference between Christianity and atheism is not the difference between “faith” and “reason”, between opinion and...
Jesus is better than angels because while they mediated the law to Moses on Sinai, Jesus has mediated an eternal covenantal relationship between God and his people. Because of this, in Jesus we are given the privilege to rule and reign over all things, we are able to...
