Stop Reading Your Study Bible

“My Study Bible notes say…” “Well, MY Study Bible notes say…so I think..” “MY Study Bible has history scholars in it and THEY say..so I think…” A typical weeknight Bible study session. Or should I say, a Study Bible session. The modern church has a deep-rooted but easily blinded problem: biblical illiteracy. In an age…

Confessions of an Introverted Christian

I am an introvert. I always have been. I took the Myers-Briggs test a few years ago and my strongest pull was in the introvert category. Since that time, I’ve always felt like the label ‘introvert’ has a negative stigma surrounding it; like culture only positively receives extroverted and outgoing people. I’ve often tried to…

“But God…”: An Interaction With the Text

I am in love with a little publisher called Cruciform Press. This publisher is a recent company on the scene of Christian books, but has quickly built up a library of material that is well worth our time. Their entire purpose is to publish God-glorifying books with solid theology yet at a very short length.…

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The Holy Spirit and Rugged Individualism

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this…We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 1938 —- The great Prince of Preachers Charles Spurgeon once said, “It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much…