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Slow Cooker Faith, part 3: Burn Victims
The one where I diagnose the burnouts and burn victims of the “on fire for Jesus” culture, and suggest a better way for sustaining an ordinary Christian life, rooted in the essential beliefs and pastoral realism of historic Christianity. This is what I call “Slow Cooker Faith.”
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Slow Cooker Faith, part 2: Trying to re-kindle the flame
The one where I talk about how the old ways of keeping me “on fire” for Jesus stopped working. From my “Slow Cooker Faith” series.
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Slow cooker faith, part 1: “on fire” for Jesus?
For the past few generations, the dominant model embraced by churches for spiritual renewal has sought to make believers “on fire” for Christ. This model has actually resulted in mass casualties. In this series, I’m thinking through a way to envision a faith that’s sustainable across a lifetime. I call it “Slow Cooker Faith.”
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Salvation belongs to the Trinity
The one where I talk about how our salvation is the result of the perfectly harmonious work of the Triune God.
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The broad way and the narrow way, part 2: What it means
In Matthew 7:13-14, Christ admonishes us that there is a broad way that leads to destruction, and a narrow way that leads to life. In this post, we learn what the broad way and the narrow way way each represent.
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The broad way & the narrow way, part 1: What it doesn’t mean
In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus spoke about a broad way that leads to destruction; and a narrow way that leads to life. In part one of a two-post series on this passage, I correct two common misapplications of this text: first, that it means we must work hard at the Christian life, or we will lose…
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Let’s hear it for Huldah
The one where I argue that any discussion of “biblical” manhood and womanhood is incomplete without a serious conversation about Huldah.
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Extra nos: because there’s nothing good in us
We can do nothing to save ourselves, nor add to our salvation, nor maintain it, nor secure it. We can only receive it through faith, from outside of us. That’s very wonderful news!
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Why the Incarnation? Ask St. Athanasius
The one where, at Christmas, I ponder the love of God and the Incarnation with St. Athanasius.
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A Christmas Eve prayer
The one where I realize I’m a lowly manger, but God has chosen me as a temple for Christ.
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