Drunk in the Spirit
Greetings, readers! Here is a link to my newly published article on being drunk in the Holy Spirit. Abstract There are a number of New Testament passages that associate the concepts …
Greetings, readers! Here is a link to my newly published article on being drunk in the Holy Spirit. Abstract There are a number of New Testament passages that associate the concepts …
God is a sending God. Sending people is what he does. Not only does God send people, he too is sent. When the world that he created went astray, rather …
All Saints Day is quickly approaching (Nov 1)! This is a Christian Holiday celebrated primarily within the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions (it’s less celebrated in Protestant tradition, as …
Life is filled with boundaries and divisions. These are good. According to the creation account in Genesis, creating boundaries was a crucial part of how God brought order out of …
I mentioned in this post that the Bible compares Jesus and the Church to a married couple. I noted that the points of comparison between the two are deep love …
The Bible calls the church is the “Bride of Christ” (Rev 21:2, 9-10; John 3:29; Mark 2:19). But what are the points of comparison between a husband and wife and …
God is in the business of separating Christians from the world. Normally we focus our thinking on God's unifying work. The Apostle Paul has quite a bit to say about the …
This is a warning that this post is a bit more academic. Read at your own risk! Living in Haiti has forced me to develop a deeper theology of suffering. Suffering …
At first blush, the Synoptic Gospels (Matt, Mark, and Luke) are so different from the gospel according to John. Two of the three Synoptics start with the genealogy of Jesus (Matt and Luke). …
Mark 2 is one of my favorite chapters in the New Testament. I love this chapter because Jesus does something quite radical that is rather easy to miss (interesting that …