“Your Faith Has Made You Well” is one of the most well-known “Jesus quotes” from scripture. Most of us assume a lot when we hear it. Like any vague sentence that has no defined terms, no context, and has been translated it is easy for us to apply whatever we want it to mean toContinueContinue reading “How Has Your Faith Made You Well? (or has it?)”
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Jesus and Your Heart.
God never asks anyone to take Jesus into their heart. It is ALWAYS a human who wants you to do this. It is always a human who wants you to prove something to THEM, not to God. God already knows what’s in your heart, whether you declare you have Jesus in there or not. IfContinueContinue reading “Jesus and Your Heart.”
Our Mental Sin Model
Photo by Davis Arenas on Pexels.com How a church handles the idea of human sin and how they think God reacts to that sin is one of the most important theological moves that we make. The basic premise of how we approach sin affects our behavior in the world just like deeply ingrained psychological modelsContinueContinue reading “Our Mental Sin Model”
Love. Justice. Mercy. Grace. Abuse.
These four words: love, justice, mercy, and grace, are well known “churchy” and “God” words. We are all familiar with them, but do we really know what they mean other than that they sound “Godly”? Scripture tells us that God itself IS love. Love is well defined in scripture in 1 Corinthians 13. We oftenContinueContinue reading “Love. Justice. Mercy. Grace. Abuse.”
Cilantro, Soap, and the Platinum Rule
Let me start with a confession: when I bite into a dish garnished with cilantro, it tastes and smells like someone squeezed a bar of soap into my food. My wife, on the other hand, lights up at the mention of fresh cilantro—she finds it zesty, bright, and absolutely delicious. For years, we joked aboutContinueContinue reading “Cilantro, Soap, and the Platinum Rule”
Was 2025 “the most ‘godly’ year in history”?
I just saw a Christian influencer claim that 2025 was “the most Godly year in history”. Without getting into a distracting debate… Everything this person thought was “godly”, I would call “ungodly”. The usual move here is to claim that we are correct because the “Bible agrees with us” and thus we make the BibleContinueContinue reading “Was 2025 “the most ‘godly’ year in history”?”
What Makes a sermon, “Good”?
Photo by George Webster on Pexels.com “I like this church and the people, but I just want a really good sermon!” How many people fall prey to the consumer culture mindset applied to church? So many church goers seem to think that choosing a church is about finding a “good sermon”. Of course, preachers oftenContinueContinue reading “What Makes a sermon, “Good”?”
Are You Thankful ENOUGH ?!
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com The United States approaches a cultural holiday known as Thanksgiving, which has become a source of dread for many, with people even creating an alternative Friendsgiving to help them cope. Those with poor family dynamics, or no families tend to justifiably dislike this holiday. I think there is moreContinueContinue reading “Are You Thankful ENOUGH ?!”
What is the purpose of Marriage?
Social media debates around “gay marriage” have been raging again. These debates are sparked by the Supreme Court rejecting a bid by a county clerk to “unmarry” people because she doesn’t like them being married. Many Christians just had a Bible reading about marriage, Luke 20:27-38 (Jesus telling the Sadducees there will not be marriageContinueContinue reading “What is the purpose of Marriage?”
Sola Scriptura vs. Inerrancy
These two concepts at not all the same thing. Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I have seen these terms conflated a lot lately online in theological debates, so I want to walk you through the key difference between the two. Inerrancy is a belief that the Bible (often a specific preferred version of theContinueContinue reading “Sola Scriptura vs. Inerrancy”
A View from the Loft 