Ever since Rob’s sermon on giving last month (see immanuelspokane.org for a recording), I’ve been thinking about how we, as followers of Jesus, engage with the topic of money. As Rob brought up in his sermon, the church in the U.S. generally…
Read MoreAs Christians, we’re given an alternative way to think about how we inhabit time. There are two kinds of time in the New Testament Greek. Chronos is time as we typically understand it, time as duration: this happens, then this, then this.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, I spent a summer working as an intern for a children’s ministry, helping with a summer Vacation Bible School program. During a daily session, one of the leaders was giving a message about fear, and asked kids to shout out some things that frightened them.
Read MoreI recently went backpacking with a group of friends. Preparing for this trip created in me a rather bizarre kind of anxiety. Some backdrop: I spent the last two summers as a mountain guide with Young Life’s Beyond Malibu, leading groups on intense, week-long mountaineering trips in remote British Columbia.
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