I wrote this little piece on April 15th, 2015 barely weeks into my exposition of Romans. I tucked it away as a sort of theological time capsule. But, unlike real time capsules intended document changes that have occurred over time, once this essay...

One of the dominate features of pietism – that methodology which mainly concerns itself with the interior of the Christian life, or how Christians live - is the penchant for emphasizing the behavioral effects of sin (morals) at the near exclusion ...

The real struggle of the Christian life is the struggle to keep His faithfulness “in our eye” instead of ours. To believe that I am in His favor by grace through faith despite who I am, or how I might fail, or what I have done, or what others have done to me. “For I am convinced that neither…”

We are born in sin. To doubt the good will of God is an inborn suspicion of God with all of us. Besides, the devil, our adversary, goeth about seeking to devour us by roaring: “God is angry at you and is going to destroy you forever.”

The evangelical version of Christianity makes it nearly impossible to be a person of simple faith. We are overwhelmed by all of this detail and data we have to remember. It’s exhausting.

In laymen’s terms Platonism is the ancient philosophy that views the material world as evil and the immaterial world as good. Matter is bad

There are two types of coaches.

My previous two articles have focused on Roman Catholic theology and its slow entry back into mainstream Christianity. Until the 1970’s, it was difficult to find any popular materials or teachers speaking on the subject of spiritual disciplines. R...

Over the last 400 years Christianity has slowly slipped away from a reformed understanding of sola fide, or a life lived by faith alone in Christ, as it concerns our sanctification and have embraced a hybrid of Roman Catholic theology and Evangeli...

Let’s take a quick simple survey:
Can you name five spiritual disciplines? What do you believe is the most important discipline? What do you believe is the purpose of the disciplines?