A call to servanthood

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another,...

A few days away

I had the privilege of going over to Great Commandment Ministries (GCM) in Yakima for the first part of this week to teach on the Theology of Creativity. My connection to this ministry came through Pete Williamson, who taught there a number of times before joining the...

A sympathetic Savior

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so...

Sabbath and technology

Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone | Matthew 14:22–23 I...

Victory

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”“O death, where is your victory?O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the...