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.
Should home churches do a traditional lecture-based lesson, or use some kind of discussion model? Let's take an insight from Scripture!
What makes home church different? Let's talk about what it might be like in the home church.
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.
Our Journey My wife and I were called into the mission field in 2010 and spent the next decade working in the underground Church, which fundamentally reshaped our understanding of God's Kingdom, the mission of the Church, and the nature of Christian community. Then we returned to the United States in 2020 during the pandemic …
Authority matters. The question of "authority" has divided the Church, "east against west", "Catholic against Orthodox", and "Protestant against Catholic/Orthodox traditions". So unity will always suffer so long as the question of authority remains ambiguous and unclear. I believe the Protestant reformation re-introduced one central truth that was desperately needed within the Church. And that …
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 …
We have to pause and think about what's happening right now. I realize that some people are so numb and weary that they're simply ignoring what's happening, while others are outraged and being consumed by rage. And I realize that there are those who are still making excuses for the President's conduct for political purposes, …
I think very few institutions right now expose our political and moral confusion quite like "Immigration and Customs Enforcement". Most Americans look at overwhelmed systems, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and security threats and conclude that some form of border enforcement is necessary. And many Americans are troubled by what they fear is the political interest …
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