“Don’t panic” seems to be the right message for beleagured, stressed Christians. In this pandemic world there always seems to be another thing coming around the corner at us. But …
Teach Your Children
Long before Crosby, Stills, and Nash sang, “Teach Your Children,” Moses told ancient Israel to “Keep these words….recite them to your children….and write them on the doorposts of your house.” …
Owe no one anything.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8. Except A Poem by Bruce Logue You won’t find …
Prejudice
Prejudice is defined as (1) a preconceived judgment or opinion (2) an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge, and it is a nearly universal human experience. The …
What does Jesus mean when he says “love”?
After you are baptized you don’t immediately know what it means to love. You can only go with what you know, not what you will know. The Greeks had several …
What God Wants
I’m pretty sure I don’t at all times want to do what God wants. There’s a scared, selfish, risk-averse part of me that causes me to think of all the …
No One Likes the Product
The Jesus Creed is a Scot McKnight blog located on the Christianity Today website. The blog is named after McKnight’s popular book by the same name. In the article below …
Dictionary’s Newest Words
Language is fluid, constantly changing. Some dictionaries publish an annual list of the new words that make it into their updated editions. For example, “selfie” was named word of the …
Roll up your sleeves!
Pictures collect after 53 years of marriage. And children dread the time when they will have to go through boxes and boxes of unlabeled snapshots, many of which they don’t …
A Woman of Valor
Rachel Held Evans, public theologian She was the C. S. Lewis of her time. by Jason Byassee What metaphor does one use to describe the way the work of scholars is …