What did the apostle Peter think of non-Christian “culture”? He wasn’t very complimentary. He didn’t celebrate it, or appreciate it. He doesn’t seek to preserve it. He describes it as…
Here’s a thought: Weekly We have weekly religious duties. Every week, God wants us to work six days and rest on the Sabbath (Gen 2:3; Exodus 20:8). The idea is to set…
If you play with perfection, you spoil it. Let’s say you’re entrusted with the Mona Lisa for a day. Do you think you could make some additions to Leonardo da…
“How can I serve others in this church?” is a great question for a woman to ask. We were thinking a bit about this on Sunday, but don’t think I…
“Guard the deposit, entrusted to you” (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:14). What would you think of a bank that had no security? They didn’t have a safe. They had…
If you love Jesus, I’m sure you puzzle over how you can spread the good news of salvation. We all want our friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbours to know the…
For the last year, there’s a phrase that’s been rattling around in my head. It comes from Hebrews 5:14 and talks about our “powers of discernment [being] trained by constant…
I wonder what commends a minister to you. What things would stand out to you as marking a Christian minister as bona fide? Paul comes up with a very interesting list of…
Does God work from the inside-out or the outside-in? I think, as evangelicals, our instinctive answer would be that God works from the inside-out. After all, the fundamental problem is…
… I want you to think: “covenant!”. That was the take home lesson of the first session of our “crash-course on the covenants” last week. Believe it or not, you…