In 2,000 years of church history, you will find an ebb and flow of opportunities seized and opportunities lost. While church history is often…
Tag: Trinity
Language About God: Interviewing Dr. Jackson Lashier
The path forward, then, is to remember the central teaching of the Trinity. It is not that God is male. It is that God is relational in God’s essence.
JR Forasteros ~ Monday Messiah
This weekend's sermon comes from Rev. JR Forasteros, Pastor of Catalyst Rowlett, a Nazarene congregation in Rowlett, Texas. This sermon plumbs John 1 and…
Carolyn Moore ~ One Thing God Said Was Not Good
Over the last 75 years, researchers at Harvard have tracked the lives of 724 men.* These men were children when the study began. For 75 years,…
Aaron Perry ~ The One You Love Is Sick
My Dad was diagnosed about six weeks before we were to move. We suspected for a while that he was sick, but didn’t know…
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ When Curiosity is Christ-Like
Curiosity about others, curiosity about their lives, opens us up to opportunities to acknowledge and reflect their value: they are worth noticing. In a distracted world, this is explosively powerful.
Edgar Bazan ~ The Trinity and the Mission of God
The ministry of the church – the mission that God has given to the church – is meant to be a continuation of the “ministry of the Son, to the Father, through the Holy Spirit, for the sake of the church and world.”
Edgar Bazan ~ Transformative Mission and the Purpose of the Kingdom of God
The proclamation of God’s kingdom is in the embodiment of the teachings of Jesus in everyday life.
Carolyn Moore ~ Hate: Confusing Holiness with Hierarchy
Let me state the obvious and say that hierarchy and hate are at the root of white supremacy and pretty much all the other hate-filled expressions of protest that surface not just in our country but around the world.
Christian Community: Why I Can’t Give Up on Church
There are some things that I know I should believe with my head, but I struggle because I don’t experience them in my heart.