Dawkins Small Group

Do you know this guy?  He kind of looks like an 80’s musician who might have had some big hits, but its actually Richard Dawkins Pope of the new atheism.
This last week I got to go to a small group that is centered on Richard Dawkins’  book “The God Delusion.”  The group is made up [...]

The Culture Wars And Why They Will Continue

Here is something I wrote during seminary and am becoming more convinced that it might be correct.
It has become common for young Christian leaders to have apathy towards a right-wing Christianity that is constantly at odds with the culture around them.  Younger Christians are standing up and saying they want to move past the tired [...]

Why We Love The Church

One of the best book I read a few years ago was “Why We’re Not Emergent.”  It was well reasoned, incredibly written, and avoided unneeded polemics in favor of a passionate plea to take serious issues that deeply effect our understanding of God.  Well the authors, Ted Kluck, and Kevin DeYoung have a new book [...]

The Doctrine of Union With Christ

Had a great conversation with a friend tonight and he was telling me about how he did not understand what it means to be “in Christ.”  Paul uses this phrase constantly in his writing and for many of us we just kind of gloss right over it.  Yet there might not be anymore precious, practical [...]

Doug Groothuis: MeWorld

My former Professor at Denver Seminary has a fun blog that I like to read on occasion called The Constructive Curmudgeon.  His posts are often thought provoking and convicting for me.  Here is a post he wrote a few days ago about the implicit self-absorption that makes up much of our current culture.  He entitled [...]

Saved

Because of Jesus’ work on the Cross the Christian can say; “I have been saved, I am being saved, and when Jesus returns, I will finally be saved.”
Dwell in this, as it is what your maker is doing/has done for you.
ryan

Why Suffering?

As I have been reading through “The Brothers Karamazov” I have been wrestling with the topic of suffering.  Now the topic of suffering is immense and the questions pile up very quickly the more one examines all the different angles of suffering.
I am going to do a series of blogposts on suffering starting with the [...]