Category Spiritual Markers

Tim has an excellent post about Christians who struggle with their salvation. He promises to break it down into a series of entries, but in his first salvo, he gives three important affirmations about a person’s salvation: First, it is…

I think that Matthew 13.44-46 contains two of my very favorite parables of Christ. They’re both joyful comparisons of the kingdom of heaven. They’re so compelling, so inviting, and so deeply challenging that you find yourself meditating on them long…

After having just returned from Washington D.C. in a whirlwind trip that included tours, meetings, and even a confrontation with FEMA, I was rather interested in discovering this entry when it popped up on my Bloglines column. It details a…

Alrighty! Let’s talk about the theology of scriptural authority for a moment. If you find your head drooping at this point, please click over to MonticelloLive or maybe even Engadget. I’d hate to be the guilty party that causes you…

You might recall my entry about the innovative church list that looked more like a popularity contest. Seems they caught more flack over it than they anticipated, and now there’s a rankable innovative church list that you can vote on…

This interesting graphic from the Association of Religion Data Archives is just one of dozens you can pull up when doing research on the status of religion in America. Very interesting. It’s my Baptist Family Tree! (or is it a…

In Matthew 7.28, the crowds were amazed at Jesus’ teaching “because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.” However, just a few days later, we stumble across Matthew 8.10. Here, Jesus is…

Scott McKnight nails it on the head in his book, Jesus Creed: For some, conversion is like a birth certificate while for others it is like a driver’s license. For the first, the ultimate question is, “What do I need…

At Passion 2007, John Piper, theologian and pastor extraordinaire got “down and dirty” with collegians about applying the radical words of Christ to real-life living. What he actually said was there is a siginificant difference in God disciplining his children…