What Would You Preach In Japan?

First, watch this:     C.S. Lewis once observed that, in a world where we’re likely to be so self-focused that we ignore God completely, pain has the ability to soften our hearts and open our eyes to the reality we often ignore. For many, no doubt, this reality hit closer to home than they [...]

Misunderstanding Prayer

Christians pay for all kinds of crazy things.  Go into your local Christian bookstore and there is a Jesus-ized version of every product imaginable: jeans, shirts, belts, pencils, mints, video games…you name it, they can make a Christian version of it and sell it to Christians who are willing to pay for it. But there’s [...]

Book Review: The Hole in Our Gospel

In a Christian world represented by private individual relationships with Jesus, altar calls, and personal holiness, Richard Stearns asks: is there a hole in our gospel. To answer this question, one must first ask what it is that God wants of us and while affirming the more traditional answers (i.e. church attendance, prayer, belief, self-denial), [...]

The Dream of Comfortable

Dreaming of a life of comfort and why it is lacking

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