Today, on Facebook, someone posted this acronym: V.O.T.E.–Victory Over The Enemy. It is messages like these that I seek to address and undo through my writings. The Church must be Christ’s Church but it seems that this election has revealed that there is a Church of the Democrats, a Church of the Republicans and a […]
This is the title of the sermon that I heard in this morning’s worship service. Delivered by the Reverend Doctor Robert Smith, Jr., professor of preaching at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, it was inspired by the words recorded in Second Corinthians 5.18-21. He shared with us his intention to marry […]
Three thoughtful and thought- provoking presentations on race and the gospel of Jesus Christ by John Piper, Tim Kelly and Anthony Bradley. Additional Reading John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross and the Christian, http://cdn.desiringgod.org/pdf/blog/bloodlines_introduction.pdf
If we love persons according to race, if our love is racially prescribed and motivated, a love that is demonstrated according to the social coloring of skin, then we do not love as God loves. We do not love with the love of Christ. I would go so far as to say that we do […]
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit and that Christ may dwell in […]