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“Believing Without Seeing” Undermines True Assurance
Read more: “Believing Without Seeing” Undermines True AssuranceWe hear it often. It’s meant to be encouraging, a gentle nudge toward deeper trust: “Faith is believing without seeing.” This phrase has been canonized in our Christian vocabulary, and while the sentiment is good—trusting God even when the path is unclear—the actual wording is weak, and tragically, it has led many of us to…
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Sin: It’s Not the Same After Faith
Read more: Sin: It’s Not the Same After FaithWe ask ourselves, “Why am I still Sinning if I am a follower of Christ?” But why do we view this sin the same as the sin that originally separated us from God. This is where it hits home: if you’re a Christian and you still feel the crushing weight of sin the same way…
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The Rapture: It’s Not What We Think
Read more: The Rapture: It’s Not What We ThinkLook, every so often, we hear it. Someone, somewhere, claims to have figured out the date. They’ve read the signs, they’ve crunched the numbers, and today is the day. We’re all supposed to be raptured. The world as we know it is about to disappear, and we’ll be caught up in the clouds to meet…
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Gospel pt2: Kingdom Inauguration
Read more: Gospel pt2: Kingdom InaugurationIn a prior article, I walked through the modern use of the word Gospel as it is found throughout our culture. We talked about music, idioms, and even Paul’s assertion of its truth through firsthand witnesses. But I had stopped short of what the gospel of the Bible actually is. Yes, we talked about the…
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The Destruction of Deconstruction
Read more: The Destruction of DeconstructionThere is a new “old” term that has been breaking its way into the language of Christian culture. You may have heard of someone saying that they have “Deconstructed” or more specifically, they have “Deconstructed their Faith”. This word no longer holds just the meaning of “taking something apart” as was first attributed to it…
Simplifying Christianity 