Insiders and outsiders. It’s always been a challenge for Christians. The moment the first Gentile embraced faith in Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, the differences between Gentiles and Jews became a challenge for the church. Frankly, this problem still plagues us …
We are not to simply become citizens of the Kingdom of God and then wait for the day of our supernatural transport into eternity. We are to participate in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, right here and right …
We knew it was coming. The work, the responsibility, the obligations of raising children. But you can’t prepare for something so massive. Motherhood requires every ounce we didn’t know we had in us to give, twenty-four hours a day, seven …
Christ goes to a well in Samaria and meets with a Samaritan woman there. He goes to a place and places himself in a situation others avoided. Setting things right in this world begins by going to places and into …
In the middle of a segregated city, our church seemed a model multicultural gathering. Our small group meetings were diverse. Our pastoral staff was diverse. The music performed on Sunday morning had no particular allegiance to a specific genre. It …
This post is the voice of Michael Frost, author of several books including Surprise the World, Keep Christianity Weird, and Hide This In Your Heart. Here, Frost encourages those of us who, well, aren’t running out the door with our …
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