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What Does It Take to Be a Good Leader?
The world has many definitions of what a good leader is, and how to be one. For instance, Forbes suggests that a good leader is one who makes others feel safe to speak up, one [Continue Reading…]
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The Community of God’s Family
While interning at a Chicago church, I received a phone call during a church potluck from a young man with a lot of questions and complaints about Christianity. In the midst of our conversation, I asked [Continue Reading…]
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How Should Christians Respond To Their Gay Kids?
Once, while looking at a church’s website, I saw an announcement on their front page telling about them hosting a woman who travels the world talking about homophobia and the Church and accepting your gay [Continue Reading…]
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How are Gentile Christians Grafted Into Israel?
In reference of Israel, Paul asked in Romans 11:11-32, “Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel [Continue Reading…]
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Will Jewish People Automatically Be Saved?
I’ve caught a lot of heat from this post from Jewish relatives and friends. So to be sure I’m not suggesting anything non-Biblical, nor anything that would support their claims of it being anti-semitic, I [Continue Reading…]
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Christians Must Be Shepherds, Not Ushers
When I woke up one morning, I felt the burden of failure within the Christian Body to express love to one another, and also to our neighbors. Instead of Christians being as one, as the [Continue Reading…]
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Understanding God’s Mercy Through the Sacrificial System
I find it interesting at how so many people can’t seem to understand the sacrificial system in the past. Let me explain: Those Were the Rules Originally, the punishment for messing up was death. If [Continue Reading…]
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Why Are There Extra Verses At the End Of Mark 16?
Have you ever noticed that there are extra verses at the end of Mark 16, and wondered why that is? Take a look: When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, [Continue Reading…]
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The Problem with Not Reading the Bible
I love the ways that Jesus would teach. One way in particular was that He would ask questions that sparked people’s interest. For instance, in Mark 12:35-40, Jesus was in the Temple Courts, when He [Continue Reading…]
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Why is it Important to Read and Know the Bible?
I read a study recently (sorry, can’t find the link) that said a huge number of Christians today don’t know the Bible, nor do they believe it’s important to. This wasn’t surprising for me to [Continue Reading…]