

No worse than a pagan
This is your goal in life: to be no worse than the unbeliever? Possibly we should set our sights a bit higher. A gray mouser relaxes in...


You can’t be serious!
The rich young ruler says yes to Christ! The start of the road leading into the Roma village in Prejmer, Romania. Philippians 3.4-19 If...


Saved by faith, elected by logic
The Westminster Confession of Faith compared to Ephesians 1. The words are the same, but the meanings are often quite different. The Nazi...

I see, therefore I’m ok
What made Christ Christ? If we say that the veil has been removed and we are being transformed into his image, then what is the image?...


Copernicus figured it out 500 years ago. Why do we still believe it?
Ephesians 2.4-7 God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses,...


You shall not coddle the ox
Paul shamed the Christians at Corinth by quoting from Deut 25.4: “You shall not muzzle an ox.” We live in a new world. The ox insists it...


One step above some and miles below others
The problem with elders is that they imagine they're actually in charge. A city street, Bangalore, India. 1 Cor 4.3 With me it is a very...


Not unreasonable
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable worship. Nandor Glid was a Holocaust...


Act naturally
The caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly through a process we call metamorphosis. It's a natural process that involves the...


Tough love
The disagreement became so sharp that they parted company The sun behind storm clouds outside our window, Romania Acts 15.36-40 Paul said...


Conflict is not the same thing as confusion
It’s in Scripture because he wants us to know it's important to him Luke 12.29-34 Do not worry what you will eat or what you will wear....


Welcome! Please stand over there. A little more. A little more. Thank you.
the Jerusalem Council: lessons for how your church greeters must not act. honeybee on a thistle. Barajul Drăgan (the Dragan dam), near...


the Rock gives it up to be a Pillar
becoming the stumbling stone Galatians 1–2 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of...


What do you mean, “we”?
If we’re not a “we”, then we’re a “you”. The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest is a collection of houses, churches,...


CHRISTIAN FINANCIAL CONCEPTS. Oh, the humanity!
Is it possible to mention "Christian" and "wealth" in the same sentence?