As 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 MoreI’ve been meaning to involve myself in a small group (we call them “Life Together” groups,) more or less since Immanuel first started, and now, almost four years later, I’ve finally done it. Better late than never, I suppose.
Read MoreSchool shootings are painful reminders that things are not how they should be. And when our sense of equilibrium is challenged by such an event, our responses reveal the brokenness of our world and of our own hearts.
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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