This week we have been doing one of the things that our Christian community, The People of Praise, does regularly all over the United States: we’ve been a ‘household.’ We aren’t the only ones doing this, from the looks of Instagram, but everyone else calls it ‘having house guests.’ Having someone stay at your house…
So here it is, like so many other places in Numbers, where the entire Christian life is laid out.
The second duty of authority is to seek to reclaim the wrongdoer. Any authority which is solely concerned with punishment is wrong; any authority which, in its exercise, drives a wrongdoer either to despair or to resentment is a failure. The function of authority is not to banish sinners from all decent society, still less…
If you love me, you’ll obey my commands. – John 14:15 I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this from the non-legalistic point of view. Forever people have read this – I have read this – like "If you love me, then you will do what I say so go figure out what I…
I’m thinking more and more that communion wasn’t ever intended to be what we’ve turned it into. Or what the guys in the middle ages turned it into. I’m not sure any Jewish person would refer to the institution of Passover any more than we would call Thanksgiving an institution. What if going to church…
John 4:28 NET Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people… So many times people focus on the woman leaving the jar like she didn’t care about water anymore because she now had the living water. and that’s fine But what are we going to do…
