Life is a gift, though at times unfair and unpredictable. Faith doesn't exempt us from the unfairness, but faith does equip us to deal with the chaos of life with courage and perseverance.
02608 – Life & Faith
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00890 – We Should Sing Some Minor Key Songs
We shouldn’t limit ourselves to major key songs! The Psalms reveal that much of the Christian life might be spent in a minor key, and it’s time that the church became honest about this reality as well. The church needs to be able to lament together, and minor key...
00693 – God is Worthy of Our Worship
Worship is right because God is worthy of it; it is the best of all antidotes to our own self-centeredness, the most effective way to “disinfect us of egotism,” as one writer put it long ago. In true worship we turn the searchlight of our mind and heart upon God and...
00409 – God Is My Hobby?
I don’t want you to go away with the impression that there’s any—you know—any inconveniences involved in the religious life. I mean a lot of people don’t take it up just because they think it’s going to involve a certain amount of nasty application and...
00003 – On Merry Christmas
The most common greeting of the first Christmas was not ‘Merry Christmas.’ It was ‘Don’t be afraid!’ It took real courage and perseverance to be at the manger: Mary’s courage, Joseph’s commitment to Mary, the awestruck obedience of shepherds, and the politically...