Our lives are informed by story. We all have a reigning story in our minds of the world that colors the way we perceive ourselves, others and the events that unfold around us. There are countless stories that we believe or are tempted to believe every day—the world is about me, the world is helplessly and…
Much of Jesus’ teaching on prayer, whether by command or by example, seems to advocate a private, secret prayer life. He often withdraws to a desolate places to pray. He rebukes the boisterous Pharisee for his public prayer and commends the quiet tax collector for his secretive prayer. He commands His disciples to “go into…
Christ’s relationship to the Old Testament is generally understood in one of two ways, both of which lie at opposite ends of the hermeneutical continuum and both of which are incomplete. When the Old Testament and Christ’s relationship to it is reduced in either of these ways, the beauty of the Old Testament narrative is…
In a world inundated with blogs, it can seem even to me that another voice is certain to be but a drop in the ocean of the blogosphere if not entirely unnecessary. So, why a blog? Culturally, we have become conditioned to obtain information online. Especially among millennials, the days of the morning paper and…