What do sports tell us about ourselves? Would we be as interested if the games we play ended without a winner, or without records of comparative accomplishment? There must be something about everything from board and card games to individual and team sports that awakens something in us that was created by God. But what […]
As the Gospel writer tells it, Jesus heads for Jerusalem by way of Samaria. When he enters an unnamed village, he is greeted by ten unnamed men who are afflicted with a loathsome physical disease and social curse (Luke 17:11-12). Standing far from the crowd that fears their disfiguring contagion, the ten call out to […]
Just a few quick observations after returning from attending the Evangelical Theological Society Conference in Atlanta: Among the many conversations, sessions and memories, I am left appreciating: The many levels at which gifted scholars are working to show the reliability of the Bible and the unparalleled supremacy of Christ. The overwhelming case that can be […]
So to try and net this out, how then do we think of the authority God gives us? Do we think of it first as a responsibility and service to God—and then to one another? Or do we view it as an entitlement to be served? Do we think of the authority God gives as […]
In my last post I asked whether it is possible to abuse power, strength, and freedom—but not authority. The question sounds ridiculous to those who know the misuse of power and authority when they see it. Yet, as our discussion showed, many of us know people who think they have the right to push others […]
