Christ: Our Past, Present, and Future
By Wade Johnston
11/05/24
8mins

Christ: Our Past, Present, and Future

You have real freedom through the gospel of Jesus Christ, a freedom that doesn’t rest on founders, votes, or power plays.
Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Christ
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
11/04/24

Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Christ

One Christ rules over all of it. He is the constant, the root that nourishes every estate and every vocation.
Reforming the Reformation
Aaron Boerst
Aaron Boerst
11/01/24

Reforming the Reformation

No matter how many times we hear this good news, it never stops being good news.

All Articles

Chad Bird
Chad Bird
04/07/17

Standing at the Foot of the Cross with Church Fathers

If he was not flesh, who was hung on the cross? And if he was not God, who shook the earth from its foundations?
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
03/18/17

Silencing the Bully Inside Your Head

Inside our heads is a courtroom where our whole lives are put on trial. And we are declared guilty of things. Big things, little things. God things, human things. True things, false things. We never can measure up.
Paul Dunk
Paul Dunk
03/16/17

Promise or Performance?

Looking at our dining room table most days, you might think we were running a cartoon factory out of our house. Drawings. Everywhere.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
03/02/17

The Gospel: No Strings Attached

I don't remember the first time I heard the gospel, but I do remember the first time I began to understand it.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
03/01/17

Living Out Forgiveness

One of the common things I see my congregants struggle with is the concept of forgiveness. Contrary to what I had assumed would be the case, I find congregants don’t struggle so much with giving forgiveness as they do living with forgiveness.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/25/17

Bringing a Heifer to Church: A Different Perspective on Ash Wednesday

God lit within these ashes the fire of a promise: whoever they touched, that person became clean.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/24/17

The Church of Chicken Little

On a recurring basis, Christians spot news headlines that signal yet one more moral collapse in society, the growing paganization of the cultures in which we live, the spread of antipathy toward the faith.
Kathy Morales
Kathy Morales
02/21/17

The Heart of Unbelief

The more I heard the song, the more I heard the heart of the Gospel in the song.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/19/17

My Great-Grandmother Handed Her Husband Over to the Devil

She wasn’t so much giving up on her husband as giving up on herself. She was giving up trying to be the person who changes another person. It was going to take more than her to reform the man she loved.
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
02/16/17

Forgiveness At Every Level

Whatever level of sin you're rummaging around in, forgiveness and grace is yours.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
02/15/17

Christianity Is Not for Everyone

The God who calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves will seem hopelessly out of touch with your insulated life of self-sufficiency.
Chad Bird
Chad Bird
01/30/17

Guest Post: It's the Love: On Conversion from Islam to Christianity

But one key theme that kept surfacing again and again was love: Jesus loved people, the Church showed me genuine love, and above all, God’s love in Christianity is unconditional.
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