Economic Justice/Financial Literacy Sunday

I. Description of the Liturgical Moment For the 2000+ years of Christian history, Greek philosophy has inordinately influenced Christian theology. From Christianity’s inception, Platonic dualism has infiltrated biblical interpretation, leading to a belief that only spiritual, i.e. non-corporeal, matters were truly real. Money and finances in such interpretations were...

How Do We Follow the Bible Without Picking and Choosing?

I don’t follow everything that the Bible teaches. Neither do you. In fact, nobody follows everything in the Bible. Having said that, I care deeply about letting God speak authoritatively over my life, and one of my commitments as an evangelical Christian is to study a historically accurate Bible...

Hope in Resurrection

My struggle over the years with the abuse has not so much been with the forgiveness aspect as much as it is how to live with it and what reconciliation should look like. A big part of my struggle has been my family’s “positive” outlook on everything—more avoidance. Forgiveness...

Fighting Sin

It’s not time to rest yet. Most of us know the feeling of being all tied up inside. We get stuck in sin or just stuck in turmoil. And when we’ve tried to conquer something for a long time, it feels impossible to conquer it by ourselves. God grants...

How to Lead Someone to Christ

The Bible asks us to believe—to appropriate Christ’s finished work on the cross by trusting Him alone to save us. A woman seeking a divorce went before the judge. He asked, “On what grounds do you want a divorce?” She replied, “My husband and I own an acre and a...