Speak the Truth to me. Don’t sell me.

Jesus is a person.  Not a product.  Introduce me.  Don’t sell me. I’m quite accustomed to hearing Jesus presented as someone who can help me, lift me up when I am down, or solve my problems.  Through song and sermon I’ve become acquainted with “feel good” Jesus.  I’ve been told that I have needs only [...]

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Thoughts…Assessing our Times

It wasn’t long ago that I read in Os Guinness’ book The Call these important words: Our challenge is not just to see the mistakes of a previous generation, obvious because not ours, but to see as well the problem of our own time, far closer and therefore harder to see. Those words have hung with [...]

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On Heresy

It isn’t exactly PC to talk about heresy.  That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, and that it isn’t pervasive.  Accusing others of holding (not to mention teaching) unorthodox beliefs is perceived as mean-spirited, brutish, even un-Christian, particularly in an American context which has difficulty speaking of truth and error.  We prefer to chalk differences [...]

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Radical Engagement and Matters of Truth

I live in an increasingly pluralistic age and stand in the midst of an increasingly pluralistic society–a country which is coming to grips with the decline of Christendom and the emergence of a new, multi-faith public square. It might be true that the vast majority of our nation still claims Christianity as their religious faith. [...]

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