In a thought-provoking article on how to speak to people in today's culture, Daniel Strange notes that there are 4 ways people respond to God. Randomly pick someone out of a crowd, ask them their view of God, and when you parse out the answer, it will boil down to one of these four approaches:…
What It Means to Get Worship “Right”
In Jeremiah 2.12-13 (NRSV), God addresses the reality that His people have turned away from Him: Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that…
What Elections Can’t Change
I'm sure I don't have to remind you that next Tuesday is Election Day. You'd have to be living off the grid, out in the wilderness somewhere, not to know that. Even then, if you were in a swing state, some political operative would probably still find you. For many of us, it's been a…
Gulping Grace 