Apr 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Serena Hansen Introduction In the summer of 2019, I spent a month in eSwatini, a small country in southern Africa. Within the first week in the country, Disney Channel star, Cameron Boyce passed away in his sleep. I had learned about his death from one of my...
Apr 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
HOW THREE BOOKS SAVED ROMANS 9-11 Joseph Beach During my first thirty years of teaching Scripture, I did my best to avoid Romans 9-11. I am embarrassed to say that when I arrived at this dreaded section, I would always beg one of the other pastors to substitute for...
Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Introduction The story of Noah’s ark has always been a favorite for children’s ministry, yet beneath the images of docile beasts walking two by two, there runs a current of violence unparalleled in the Old Testament. “Rarely today are we shown images of those children...
Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
“From beginning to end, in the work of man’s conversion and sanctification there run side by side two lines: divine grace and human free will.” – Panagiotis Trembelas in How Are We Saved? By Kallistos Ware. Before I took any steps to seek out Orthodoxy, I...
Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
STONES One of Zeno's paradoxes claims to prove you can never arrive at your destination, as you must first travel halfway there,then halfway again, another half always in front of you.Forever prohibited from finishing the race. Another claims,...
Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s martyrdom. The crucible in which Bonhoeffer lived and died—Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War Two—has been seen, up until now, as the greatest existential threat humanity has faced in modern...
