Christian Discipleship in Northern Canada
I determined at the outset that Christian teaching must have concrete purchase on the lives of Christian people.
Lead Us Not into Temptation?
The call from our Lord is to persevere in the face of repeated, persistent, and often agonizing temptation. But it’s important to remember that we’re not called to do this on our own.
Dreaming dreams and seeing visions
The revelatory power of dreams is a fairly common theme in Scripture.
Light in the darkness
The Scriptures are saturated with imagery of light; they begin with God speaking light into being and end with the heavenly Jerusalem alight with the glory of God.
Jesus leads us in dying to self
The gospel stubbornly reminds us of death, and not just any death, but the gruesome execution of the only human being to have surrendered perfectly to the will of God.
The Bible and Rob Bell
Rob Bell is crafting a religious system that is only tangentially related to orthodox Christianity, and which increasingly appears to make Christian habits of thought and language purely optional.
Avoiding burnout in ministry
Shortly after being ordained, I found myself completely overwhelmed. Within a year, I was teetering on burnout.