A thoughtful piece by Rory Shiner about the differences between nominalism and secularism and how the worshipping church responds differently to each. The observation that nominalism (people who identify as Christian without meaningfully following Jesus, while following a form of traditional church observance) and secularism (people who don’t identify as Christian or followers of Jesus, …
Stan Gale spent the days after his birth in an incubator. He received that life sustaining and growing support in isolation. As a disciple of Jesus we are told that we need support for our life to be sustained and our growth supported. We need an incubator. But not in isolation. The church is God’s …
The expectations of an impatient culture run counter to the reality that growth is a long term process. But the conviction of that long-term expectation does not manifest itself in frustration, or in complacency and inactivity. Rather the expectation that we are growing like Jesus produces the immediate regular actions that produce that fruit. From …
… true success is found in the failure to find meaning and purpose in something we do, accomplish, build. Rather, our identity, our meaning and purpose, is not something we work for but receive from the hand of our Father. Chad Bird, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life, as quoted at …
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