While this anxiety about a global pandemic is justifiable, it also highlights the tensions that simmer under the surface of our everyday life. Our culture is desperate for certainty, security and control. For many, this time has highlighted an uncomfortable truth, that we are decidedly not in control of our lives…
Read MoreIf the early Christians were to follow all that Peter wrote to them about, they would have no choice but to face the questions from the unbelievers that they interacted with on a daily basis. For Peter does not tell them to prepare clever ways to bring up conversations about God, or to look for ways to insert God’s wisdom into the lives of unbelievers, but rather he tells them to prepare a response for when the inevitable questions come from unbelievers…
Read MoreOur culture would have us believe that which is “old” is boring, lifeless, unreliable, and no longer relevant to our current needs. If our needs change, then of course it stands to reason that we need new things to meet them. But I would argue our most essential needs haven’t changed. As those who bear the name of Jesus Christ, we should be skeptical of the “new” particularly as it relates to God’s Word and the life that God has called us to live…
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