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  • Recommended Reading: January 2-8

    If you read one article this week, engage Reading Beneath the Words by Fr. Stephen Freeman. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections below, gathering from the far corners of the galaxy. As always, if there is something I missed sharing, feel free to let me know…

  • Book Review: Understanding the Times (Myers and Noebel)

    Every so often a book comes along and truly rewrites the paradigms of a field. Some twenty-five years ago, David Noebel penned such a book, titled Understanding the Times. In this 900-page tome Noebel outlined the clash between competing worldviews – ways of viewing and interpreting the world – which were occurring throughout in the…

  • Recommended Reading: December 26 – January 1

    Happy New Year dear readers! If you read one article this weekend, engage Christmas in the Middle of Something by Abrahm K-J. For those of you with additional reading time during this busy season, check out the following selections below, gathered from around the interwebs over the past two weeks. As always, feel free to…

  • Happy 2016!

    God, bless to me the new year, Never vouchsafed to me before; It is to bless Thine own presence Thou hast given me this time, O God.

  • Looking Forward to the Future: Goals for 2016

    Generally, I’m not one to craft a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions. Not necessarily because I am bad at following through, but rather due to my propensity to try and “fix” something when I see that it needs fixing. Nevertheless, over the past couple of weeks I have found myself reflecting on the need to…

  • Top Ten Posts of 2015

    Although I’m a stat-head when it comes to sports, politics, and personal finances, I generally try to avoid obsessing over statistics when it comes to writing or serving in the church. Why? Because I think that things which matter will matter regardless of how many people are participating. Of course, I want as many people…

  • Christmas Letter 2015

    Christmas Greetings Friends and Family! We hope that this Christmas letter finds you adequately recovering from your holiday festivities and eagerly awaiting the arrival of our new year. We had grand plans for this year’s Christmas letter. “Perhaps a Christmas poem,” we told ourselves. “But even if it’s not that creative, we can certainly write…

  • Book Review: NLT Illustrated Study Bible

    The means by which one encounters the Scriptures are formative and important. That is to say, the Bible that you use—read, study with, take to Church, consult when times are tough—helps shape who you are as a Christian. Choosing the right Bible(s), then, can be a very important decision. But so many of the Bibles…

  • For Unto Us a Child Is Born

    Merry Christmas! Today we celebrate the advent, the incarnation, of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who was spoken of by the prophets, was crucified, died, and resurrected. As we celebrate His birth today,  let us reflect on what the scriptures have to say about his coming:

  • The Christology Debate

    The Early Christian Church spent hundreds of years seeking a definitive answer to the question, “Who is Jesus?” The answer to this all-important question formed the basis for much of Christian theology and practice. Who is Jesus? Is He God? Is He Man? How does Jesus save us? These are the questions that early theologians…