I’ve asked for dirt for Christmas, several times in fact. I really love good, rich soil and I’d love to have a huge pile of it. My grandmother was a florist and avid gardener. My parents have one of the…
Tim Keller (Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan) traveled to Google earlier this spring to discuss his new book The Reason for God as part of the Authors@Google program. There is more information on the book here, and a recent Christianity…
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Hebrews 12:1…
Back in April, Pastor Bill spoke about being sheep and being shepherds, and how, in the life of the body (individual and corporate), we are sheep in some instances and shepherds in others. One of our shepherds, Gene Kummerer, has…
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. I Peter 5:7 I am thirty-three years old and have been a Christian all of my life, and yet I do not think it was until this year that…
In one of the only legitimate Christian treatments of postmodernism that I’ve come across, James K. A. Smith argues that postmodernism presents a window for Christians eager to preach a communal and redemptive gospel into a society atomized by consumerism,…
“Why do we always invite the soggy bottom leftovers?” moaned our daughter one Sunday afternoon after our guests had left. You see, each Sunday morning I would fix a big salad, a dessert and a casserole and put it in…