Christians may believe in the same God, but they do not agree about the proper way to apply God’s standards in the modern state. Another way of saying this migh...
Don’t be clever; do be careful. Don’t be controversial; do be consecrated. Don’t be conceited; do be concentrated. Never choose a text, let the text choose you….When a text has chosen you, the Holy Spirit will impress you with its inner meaning and cause you to labor to lead out that meaning for your congregation.” (1) With words such as these, Oswald Chambers instructed students at his Bible Training College, and, while the implorations may seem unremarkable for a twentieth-century Holiness preacher, the story of how the words came to be spoken and to be published is remarkable, indeed. If ever a story embodied the ideals of Holiness Christianity, that life most certainly was Oswald Chambers’.
As one who has grown up immersed in a strongly Christ-centered family and community, I find that I exhibit the tendency to adhere to the received, orthodox Chri...
In 1 Corinthians Paul claims that he “decided to know nothing except Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:2). Indeed throughout Paul’s letters, the earlies...
In March of 1973, Pink Floyd released what would become one of the most popular albums in the history of rock and roll. Dark Side of the Moon was Floyd’s epic a...
The Da Vinci Code. By Dan Brown. Doubleday, 2003.
You have probably read The Da Vinci Code. Or, if you haven’t, you almost certainly know someone who has. On...
The Passion of the Christ. Dir. Mel Gibson. Icon Productions, 2004.
Roger Ebert called the film the “most violent I have ever seen. It will probably be the m...
Systems and Christianity. By Doug Hall. Not yet released.
"In the beginning was the relationship," wrote 20th century Jewish philosopher Martin Buber: a prof...
Behind the radio’s altar light
The hurried talk to God goes on:
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done,
Produce our lives beyond this night,
Open our eyes again to ...
sweet wind of eternity
Spirit
lilywhite scent; I have longed to slip
beyond the shores of postmodernity
within your silver halls
to lay me on the naked ground
a...