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10 Books Every Christian Must Read
Summer is almost upon us and for many students, both in high school and university, summer becomes a time where students let their spiritual development languish as the period of work and study seems to be over. However, rather than languish in time, summer also becomes an opportunity to develop a mind that is keen…
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Home, Found Not Here nor There
People long for the familiar. Even many immigrants, people who have uprooted themselves from places of familiarity, often end up in ethnic enclaves with like people. Perhaps no city better illustrates this than New York. Whether it was Irish Immigration into Brooklyn, the creation of Little Italy, or the populating of Chinatown, people gravitate towards…
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The Gospel is not the Center of the Christian Life
One common answer given when you ask a Christian what is the center of the Christian life is the gospel. However, the gospel is not the center of the Christian faith and life. The gospel is important, the gospel changes lives, indeed it is the very power of God unto salvation for all who believe,…
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Do we really have a “Relationship” with Jesus?
As Evangelicals, as Christians in the modern West, we very much have a view of the Christian life that equates faith to relationship. However, this relationship itself is poorly defined and at best, when pressed about it, all we can say is that it amounts to “knowing God and not just about him.” Fundamentally though, I think…
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Merry Christmas
And the light shined in the darkness and the darkness has not mastered it. John 1.5 Christmas is the day where Christians celebrate the fulfillment of the promises of God, of God condescending to people so that people might find again a true humanity and exalt the glory of God. Christmas is for the faithful…
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Heaven is not the goal of Christian salvation
Heaven, as a place apart from the earth, is not the goal of the Christian life, and to present this heaven as a sort of goal for the Christian life is a disservice to the gospel itself. The Bible doesn’t say much about heaven, but one thing is for sure, heaven, or at least the…
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Salvation is not the same as having Assurance
One common refrain I hear often is “are you sure you’re going to heaven?” But how can I even ask this question if I question whether or not that answer is yes for myself. Evangelicalism has not reflected deeply on its theology of assurance and of faith and how that theology has related to the…
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Thanksgiving & Eucharist
Perhaps the biggest lie of our age is that “we can do anything that we put our minds to.” It is the biggest lie because it is the very lie that has caused our downfall; it is the statement that is the epitome of our human hubris. The very first sin, the original sin of…
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The Christian Life Is the Unintentional Life (Pt. 2)
Previously I talked about how the Christian life is the unintentional life, one where the natural response is godliness and we no longer require effort to be ungodly. This is the nature of sanctification. Now I want to talk about how God also interrupts and destroys any notion of the centrality of intention to Christianity.…
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The Christian Life is the Unintentional Life (Pt. 1)
“Intentional” seems to be a buzzword among Christians these days. Phrases like “intentional relationships” appear in discussions about the nature of dating. Intentionality has become a part of how some Christians define what it means to have friendships or our relation to God. Intentional seems to be this buzzword that seems to be this positive thing…
Defined Faith
dominus pascit me — the Lord is my Shepherd
Defined Faith 