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How shall we live as God’s holy people in a post-Christian age? Should we even talk about holiness when such talk, especially when linked to purity, sounds like a worrisome form of extremism? These are serious questions. It could be argued,…
May/04/2016
What is the relationship between the command to love one’s enemies and the use of violence and/or other coercive political means? Two important contemporary approaches to Christian ethics offer different, perhaps incommensurable, answers. O…
May/02/2016
Over the course of nearly two years, between 2013 and 2015, I had the distinct privilege of cowriting a textbook for evangelical communities on the ever-important topic of environmental studies. The book was eventually called Introducing Ev…
Apr/27/2016
Building one’s library is an essential aspect of any youth worker’s job. In this resource essay, we will explore several of what I think are the best books, periodicals, and websites of which anyone seeking to do youth ministry should be aw…
Apr/20/2016
The Gospels and Paul’s letters rightly deserve the vast attention paid to them, yet the final third of the NT has its own truth to tell. Fortunately for us, faithful interpretive guides for the final third of the NT abound.
Hebrews is we…
Apr/13/2016
In my first two installments of “Critical Shifts for Embracing God’s 21st Century Mission,” we explored the need to move “From Preaching to the Choir to Communicating with Cultural Clarity” and “From Waiting for Rock Stars to Unleashing the…
Apr/11/2016
Evangelism today is often described as done in obedience to the Great Commission of Matt 28:16–20. This passage is widely appealed to as our motivation for evangelism, and analyzed in depth for clues regarding the content and method of evan…
Apr/06/2016
[This is part three of a three-part series. Part one. Part two.]
Response: Dates → Confession
As real as the allure of evil and the appetite for destruction is the human fascination with predicting the time and nature of the end. Christia…
Apr/04/2016
There have been a number of unfolding and overlapping shifts in Western missiological thinking in recent years. First, the dominant understanding of mission as sending people overseas to pre-Christian cultures has been overshadowed by the n…
Mar/30/2016
[This is part two of a three-part series. Part one. Part three.]
Focal Activity: Destruction → Conquer
Just as we tend to have a strange attraction to evil, we are also enamored with violence and destruction. Michael Bay makes a lot of mo…
Mar/28/2016
The most well-known, and perhaps well-loved, verse in the Bible is John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” (NRSV).
God so loved the …
Mar/23/2016
If I had to give the church a grade on its interpretation of the Revelation, I would give it a “D.” The reason for this grade is not just that the church has struggled to make sense of the book, but the grade fits the themes that Christians…
Mar/21/2016
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