Category: Holiness

  • Economics in a Genesis 3 World

    By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19 (ESV) We sometimes assume that the Bible says very little about “non-religious” topics such as economics and politics. Of course,…

  • Slow to Speak, Slow to Anger

    We have it on good authority that Socrates believed that the unexamined life was not worth living.  I’m not sure he was right or wrong, but I am sure that our unexamined conversations can be very dangerous. I’m honestly not sure, when I think about it, that our conversations are usually menat to communicate anything…

  • One of the many things that have made up the experiences of my life is the 7 years as an adult that I spent living in South Korea. When I talk about it with people, those who haven’t lived an appreciable time in a foreign culture think it sounds cool and a little scary. Often…

  • Marriage: David Mathis has a decent article on the picture marriage is of Christ’s love for the Church. Church Revitalization: Thom Rainer gives reasons for his optimism about a coming wave of Church revitalization. Holiness: Over at the Cripplegate, a decent article on how to know you’re growing in holiness when struggling with anger. Weather:…

  • Perhaps it is not the culture that needs to repent of its failure to be Christian, but Christians who need to repent of being so lax in following Christ.