How can we be strengthened for this way? The excellent way to live life, and more specifically to live the Christian life within the church, is not going to be easy. In fact, with man, it would be impossible. However, Christ is capable of taking his rag-tag group of people with all sorts of backgrounds,…
Author: Jason
Long time software developer, husband, and father of 2 very active boys. My real passion is Christ's church. With God's help, I hope I can aid in the effort to edify and encourage maturity within the body until we all reach the fullness of maturity in Christ!
A Christian’s Worth
Not About Self-Esteem For most of my life, I’ve been surrounded with the doctrines of the church of self-esteem. It has promoted itself under the guise of preventing suicide, improve happiness, and even increase morality in society. The idea is that, if people could convince themselves they are awesome, they would enjoy life more and…
What Should I Do?
Our concerns may be about career decisions, who we should marry, whether to make an expensive investment, whether to move, etc… These decisions may appeal to us because of the perceived blessings that could come with moving to a new area or changing jobs, but usually our minds will also go to all that could…
Seven Day Sabbath
Common Views Within the Christian circles that I read and travel, I’ve met people who hold differing views on what Sabbath ought to be for a Christian. Throughout most of church history, the body gathered together for services on Sundays. In some western countries, you can see this observance reflected in the workweek where businesses…
The Gospel
Saved From What? The good news is that Jesus saves, but that could mean almost anything without context. There are people who look into Jesus hoping to be saved from financial hardship, depression, loneliness, or any number of other sufferings of this life. While following Jesus can offer a way of life which can bring…
Press On To Maturity
Entirely Beside the Point Today, I’m going to work on unpacking a chapter that is discussed fairly often, but is largely misunderstood because the modern church is guilty of the very thing the chapter warns against to such an extent that it completely fits in our blind spot! You’ve likely heard people talk about what…
The Beasts of Revelation
Timeless I’m going to attempt something very difficult. I’m going to try to pull a message about the “beasts” of Revelation without attempting to identify and pin down the specifics of historical/future persons or groups. It seems first nature to jump into that, when reading the texts, and that discussion has it’s place. Is it…
Submitting to Government
Of sermons regarding how a Christian ought to interact with government, there are no end. However, in my experience, they can mostly be summarized as “Do whatever the government says unless they explicitly contradict God, at which point you no longer need to respect them.” You can even see such views in the US Declaration…
Keep the Church Close
A good portion of the church has, for many years now, been operating with the idea that we can grow the church by our own savvy. While the apostles stood in the streets recounting the mighty acts of God and depending upon him to add to the church those being saved, we figure maybe their…
Lies Don’t Last
Perhaps one of the easiest ways to tell if someone is lying is if their story keeps changing. In an effort to hide the truth, a person may come up with all sorts of creative stories but the more stories they tell the harder it gets to keep them straight. Eventually, putting the stories together…