A Home Church Ministry
A reflection on the growing tendency to frame Christian holiness primarily in terms of loving God, while neglecting the Bible's equally persistent call to actively resist, put off, and put to death sin. The gospel is about reconciliation with God and transformation through the Spirit—but love does not eliminate the ongoing war with the flesh. Following Jesus means embracing the cross, denying ourselves, and actively putting sin to death.
Ezekiel 16:49 exposes the moral danger of abundance without love. Sodom’s sin was not simply that she possessed wealth and comfort, but that she enjoyed abundance while refusing to support the poor and needy. This post explores how Scripture connects material blessing with moral responsibility, showing that wealth carries both personal and communal obligations toward those who are vulnerable.
What grounds human dignity: usefulness, relationship, or something built into us at creation? Post 3 traces Genesis 1 through Forlines and Calvin.
Is truth just what culture or power decide, or is it objective and given? Post 2 traces Scripture's answer through Calvin's account of what we can't unknow.
This has been a reoccurring conversation I've had with many people over the years. The problem with this idea, when used wrongly, is that it conflates the text itself with our reading of the text, and then treats any challenge as a challenge to Scripture itself. When used this way, the phrase essentially becomes a …
With so much confusion and chaos in the world, people need solid ground to stand upon. Jesus said his word was like a rock upon which we could build our life. But we need to understand what that means. Let's think about that!
This post responds to Dr. Joshua Sijuwade’s The Identity of the Church: A Comprehensive Argument for the Truth of Eastern Orthodoxy, which claims that the Eastern Orthodox Church best fulfills the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed’s vision of the “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” While appreciating the intellectual rigor of Sijuwade’s argument, the author challenges the underlying assumption that the one Church must correspond to a single, historically continuous institution. Drawing from Ephesians 4 and the teachings of Jesus, the post argues that the Church’s unity is spiritual, not institutional—rooted in the shared life of believers who abide in Christ and are joined together by the Spirit. The true continuity of the Church is the ongoing work of the Spirit among all who follow Jesus, not an unbroken chain of organizational lineage. Historic and structural continuity have value but do not define the Church’s identity; faithfulness to Christ does. The Church, therefore, is not a denomination we can point to, but a people who together embody the love, faith, and hope of the gospel.
Many Christians today are scaling the spiritual dangers of wealth like free-solo climbers on El Capitan—with no preparation and no awareness of the risk. Jesus warned clearly and repeatedly that riches are spiritually dangerous, yet much of the Church celebrates what he condemned. This post calls us to rediscover Jesus as our true treasure and repent of the materialism that has distorted his teaching.
Jesus doesn’t separate faith from compassion. In Matthew 25:40, he says our treatment of the hungry, the stranger, and the prisoner is how we treat him. Many Christians today dismiss care for the vulnerable as optional. But Jesus makes it central. It’s time to recover the gospel's forgotten mercy.
Matthew 5:43–48 (CSB) — 43 “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the …
A Dedicated Faith 