Geoffrey Holsclaw
God’s love is not the starter kit, to which you then add other more complicated characteristics later, when you’re more experienced. God’s love is not just the front door, leading to other rooms of more sophisticated attributes and truths. God’s love is not the shiny wrapping paper covering a more complicated gift that demands greater […]
Focusing on blood is tough for us modern people—especially sacrificial blood. We don’t really have any category for that. And yet, if we are to celebrate our redemption in Christ as we did in the previous post on the Evangelical Preaching of the Cross: Redemption, then we must affirm that—in some way— our redemption is […]
A couple years ago I attended a conference in D.C, missing the Ash Wednesday service at our congregation in Chicago. Instead I attended one offered by the conference. The service was beautiful and well thought out. Some words were offered by Dallas Willard, but the only phrase I remember is when he said, “The Cross […]
Today we are encouraged to follow our feelings to determine what is right and wrong. We are called to be authentic in deciding what is good and evil, even if—especially if—it conflicts with traditional religious norms. But does the Transfiguration tell us a different story? But can we just invent our own language of what […]
We constantly stumble over the word—faith. How do we know we have it? What does it mean to lose it? But really, faith is weirder than we think. And there is one thing we often misunderstand about faith. We are almost done with our Faith Hacking series. Previously we covered… Making room for the God who […]
Often we think of “salvation” as a movement from or against: away from sin, hell, or the “world.” But what is salvation for? What is it leading us to? Is heaven the extent of our answer? What if our idea of salvation needed to move away from a “place” (going to heaven instead of hell) and more toward a “person”? […]
In our hopes to transform culture we often forget about society. And too often we split apart culture and society. This is bad for culture, society, and the church. Culture is usually viewed with suspicion leading to separation or withdrawal. We have “culture wars” after all. But society is usually viewed neutrally (if thought about at all). Christians […]
Why Still So Tired? For all the weary and over-burdened, we were told that if we followed Jesus then his “yoke would be easy and his burden would be light” (Matt. 11:28-30). But often times we don’t feel that way. We haven’t found that kind of rest in Jesus. We feel still feel disconnected, tired, […]