“Often individuals with these experiences will be made to feel as though their confusion is due to some unforgivable sin. But the biblical story draws an important distinction between feelings and actions when it comes to sinfulness. Sin is indulging and acting upon a desire that is outside of the Creator’s design. … Unwanted feelings are a result of our weakness and brokenness, but can be turned over to God rather than acted upon.”
Category: CURRENT EVENTS
Being Human: How Democratic Freedoms Birthed A Nation and a Sexual Revolution
In the Declaration of Independence, liberty and the pursuit of happiness “have come to define what it means to be human in modern America.” These “good things have come to be seen as ultimate things—as ends in and of themselves.” These two inalienable rights have become idols and are summed up in the word, freedom.
The Cross & ISIS: Responding Like Christ, Not Like an American
The Church in America cannot see (in part or in full) the “ripeness of the fields” if we are solely or primarily calling for the militaristic defeat of ISIS. We will see enemies and not fellow images of God who desperately need the gospel as well.