Today’s Reading: Read Exodus 23:1-6; 12, 14-17; 24:12 In Genesis 15 we read about a special covenant relationship between God and Abraham. In Exodus, we are learning how God wants to continue that covenant with Abraham’s descendants, the Israelites. To do that, God gave Moses some specific guidelines to help
In a recent article in these pages, Phil Davignon makes the case for why apologetics and catechesis are the wrong targets for the oft-maligned “rise of the nones.” While there is nothing wrong with intellectual defenses and instruction, Davignon admits, placing our attention here reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the
There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody
Understanding the Differences between Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Tactics “As we anticipate releasing our new evangelism and outreach ministry in 2023 called The Hope Initiative, we have used these definitions to help churches reach beyond their walls.” Capitalize on Thanksgiving, the Hidden Christian HolidayThanksgiving can be a hidden Christian holiday
Can something that has no image come as an image? . . . In my room a little lamp is always lighted before the icon at night—the light is dim and negligible, but nevertheless you can see everything. —Ippolit, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot Ippolit’s stray observation about the Christ icon,
Before he died, Larry Barkdull had written a substantial part of an unfinished manuscript about the extraordinary power of faith, particularly as a power that causes things to happen. This is faith on a higher level than we usually practice and understand it. With the permission of his wife, Buffie,
Division is an all-pervasive affliction in the contemporary world. In a country like the United States we are often tempted to admit that we live under no shared dominant cultural model. Instead, we are torn from allegiance to allegiance in a matrix of mutually contradictory partisan groups unhappily mingled under one