Reconnecting with the Core Message of Compassion & Grace By Brandon Anchant, Intern In today’s Christian community, there exists a pervasive atmosphere of a pharisaical mindset. This mindset is characterized by self-righteous piety and a judgmental attitude that has...
By Brandon Anchant, Intern I was speaking with my friend Ralph at the climbing gym where I work. He is a sixty-something Englishman with a rather spicy personality. I knew he grew up in Manchester, England, and I had recently been studying New Testament...
The confession that a man, named Jesus, is the Christ, the Only-Begotten of the Father, is in such direct conflict with our experience and with all of our thinking, and especially with all the inclinations of our heart, that no one can honestly and with his whole soul...
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” How true. How often does our contentment vanish when we see (what we perceive to be) the superior condition of another person. We lack nothing until that catalog arrives in the mail, and suddenly we are...
Did anyone imagine a few months ago that most of the world would essentially shut down its economic engines in so short a time? The economic effects of the Coronavirus are yet to be seen, but the biblical book of Revelation does predict a global economic disaster...
Biblical theology is all the rage, especially among young, reformed-ish types. In contrast to the perceived stuffiness of systematic theology (or so they’ve heard), biblical theology provides a storyline that delights with previously unnoticed insights. This is...