Why I’m Grateful for Christian Music

Why I’m Grateful for Christian Music

Lately I’ve been reflecting about growing up in the 1980s. I feel very blessed to have been a kid during the time of Big Wheels, Atari, BMX, Star Wars, and mullets. Well, maybe not the mullets. It was the heyday of the new wave of British heavy metal, hair...
Humility of Purpose

Humility of Purpose

“Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the...
The Power of “We”

The Power of “We”

Not long ago a friend of mine said that he didn’t like the fact that the Nicene Creed in Holy Communion uses “We”. He said, “I don’t know if the person next to me believes this or not.” I must admit that I was at a bit of a loss for...
Stability in Unstable Times

Stability in Unstable Times

John Stott says, “Let the devil mount his fiercest attack on the feeblest saint, let the anti-Christ be revealed and the rebellion break out, yet over against the instability of our circumstances and characters, we set the eternal stability on the purpose of...
(Re)Learning to Love

(Re)Learning to Love

One of the things I find tiring is sorting through the re-defining of words. I’m talking about perfectly good words that have a solid history and setting in which they have normally been used. On the one hand, it can be annoying, on the other it can be...