Chad Bird contends that God does not reveal himself on the mountaintops of life as consistently as he is found in the valleys. He makes reference to what he describes as “one of the most in-American verses in the Bible,” truthfully one of the most counter-cultural verses of our age. If I could rewind my …
Gathering to worship God bids us do one thing at once with all our focus. This runs counter to the growing tendency to split attention between any number of tasks, giving full attention to nothing. God deserves nothing less than undivided attention. From John Muether: Single-minded attention is strange to us, even in worship, because …
In a culture that encourages fear of missing out there is a price to be paid in having every cent and every moment spoken for. As Christmas gives way to thoughts of New Year, Michael Kelley writes about the margin that God wants us to factor into our lives and why we shouldn’t reap to …
Fleming Rutledge writes about John the Baptist and what she terms “apocalyptic transvision — that vision given to the church that sees through the appearances of this world to the blazing power and holiness of the coming of the Lord.” …. It has occurred to me that the image of Jesus as the cosmic Judge …
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