by Brian | May 21, 2020 | Spiritual Life
Following up on Chris’ post from the other day, I wanted to share some thoughts from a few hundred years ago from John Calvin. I’m (slowly) reading through his Institutes, and just happen to hit the section talking about how Christians are to handle...
by Brian | May 19, 2020 | Culture, Current Events, Spiritual Life
In our current climate of sickness, lock downs, re-openings, and “new normals,” we also have new questions to think through—especially in terms of how we relate to each other now that there are many different opinions about the issues COVID-19 has...
by Brian | May 6, 2020 | Anxiety, Spiritual Life
Today I’ve spent some time looking at Philippians 4 in preparation for next week’s Zoom study. I found this great passage from Chrysostom’s sermons on Philippians, on the 11th verse of chapter 4. Figured it would be a great thing to share with you,...
by Brian | May 5, 2020 | Bible Study, Spiritual Life
Good to see everyone last night. Press on! A lot of you know I’m always looking for tools that help us engage scripture with our minds at a deep level. So I wanted to share an article posted on the Crossway Books site a few days ago, called 5 Prompts for...
by Brian | Apr 15, 2020 | Current Events, Spiritual Life
Why does God make us wait for difficult times to be over? Why does he sometimes delay his solution to the things that are troubling us? I was thinking about this while reading Acts chapter 8 and 9 this morning. Acts 8 describes what must have been a very difficult...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2020 | Spiritual Life
A lot of us find ourselves with extra time right now, and as this time stretches on, with no obvious end in sight, we’re going to find that we need to be alert to the kinds of things that happen in our hearts and minds when we’ve been in quarantine for say, five...
