By Thomas Lambrecht It is hard to wrap our minds around how things have changed in The United Methodist Church over the past year. Last January, we were looking forward to a General Conference meeting in August 2022. The Protocol of Grace and Reconciliation through Separation was on track to
Subscribe Now Why Do We Have Hope This Season? Sermon Notes | Episode 16 Welcome back to Sermon Notes, a podcast that dives deeper into the sermons of each of our campus pastors. In this episode, we’re joined by Doug Jones from the Church at Woodbine. Joining us this
If there could be said to be a general diagnostic problem within the reception of the death of God, it is perhaps the interconnection between its originary Nietzschean articulation and the rationalist atheism of the Enlightenment as such. It is certainly true that Nietzsche is expressing a statement of unbelief
River Running For twenty-two years, my brothers I spent at least one or two weeks every year rafting or running various rivers in the Midwest and the West. I grew up on the edge of the Ozarks in Missouri, canoeing down the Jack’s Fork, the Current, the Meramec, the Eleven
Two of my children dislike being surprised. I’ve told each of them to buckle up if they don’t like surprises, because life is full of them! Good ones and bad ones, they seem to be around every corner. And I do understand why surprises unnerve some people; they like to
Pastors should use Christmas as an opportunity to communicate and explain truths about the Trinity and Jesus’ birth and divine nature. By Aaron Earls Christmas celebrates Jesus’ birth, but most Americans, including many in your church, may be confused about what exactly that means. More than half of Americans (55%)
This is Part 2 of my reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s recent comments on God that began here. MacIntyre rightly noted that divine omniscience involves God knowing everything that can be known. MacIntyre’s claim was that the genuine singularities of creative human action cannot be known or predicted before they occur. They cannot even
I had a pit in my stomach the first few weeks after we moved from Utah to Virginia, feeling somewhat like the baby eagles who are pushed from their cliff-high nests by their weary mothers and plummet wildly to the ground. When I’ve seen these nature documentaries with pictures of