Race and the Gospel: How Can We Move Beyond a Broken Witness?—Part 4
“When We’re in a Posture of Hospitality, We Can’t Objectify Those With Whom We Disagree. We Can’t Throw Stones While Serving Bread.”
“When We’re in a Posture of Hospitality, We Can’t Objectify Those With Whom We Disagree. We Can’t Throw Stones While Serving Bread.”
Sometimes, the leader is distracted. Other times, there are dissenting voices in the organization.
The Puritans have been stereotyped as legalistic and impersonal and believing in an impersonal God, but in many hours of reading them I believe nothing could be further from the truth!
Many Christian school teenagers have a deep spiritual cynicism baked into their hardened hearts. Far too many of these teens graduate and then publicly evacuate their faith, either through outright denunciation or post–high school hedonism.
“Heaven and Hell Show Up in the Balance as Jesus Pointedly Discusses the Inability to Separate our Love of Neighbor From our Love of Him.”
We all have areas where we can improve. Everyone can always get better. We can improve upon the way it’s always been done, learn new ways of doing things, and do things better the more we try.
During the pandemic, Lyberg visited local members in the hospital using FaceTime, and he can do the same thing with members who live in other places.
Thinking about cultural engagement isnt something necessarily new to the church. In his treatise, The City of God, Augustine outlined how the city of God (reflected in the church) lives in and engages with the city of man (Rome). Fast-forward to 1951 and H. Richard Niebuhr wrote the classic primer listing five models of how Christians can offer a prophetic witness in a post-Christian world […]
I think it’s important to know what causes us to lose trust with the people we are attempting to lead.
Christianity is unique in its perspective of our desires, teaching that they will be sanctified and fulfilled on the New Earth.