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  • The Foundations of Biblical Worship

    The Foundations of Biblical Worship

    Worship has become the church’s most divisive battlefield. We argue about music styles, debate contemporary versus traditional, and split congregations along preference lines. But we may be asking the wrong questions. What if the real problem isn’t that we disagree on how we worship but have failed to fully grasp what worship is in the first place…

  • Misleading Memes & the Manger

    Misleading Memes & the Manger

    There has always been only one kingdom and one true King. Jesus Christ stands over all human systems, cultures, and ideologies. Yet Jesus does not come to abolish government, seize political control, or lead a social revolution. He comes to redeem rather than dismantle political and social systems.

  • Your Words Matter (The Reason Why May Surprise You)

    Your Words Matter (The Reason Why May Surprise You)

    (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 of The Tyranny of Niceness series) In 1633, the Roman Inquisition brought Galileo Galilei to his knees. The aging astronomer had committed an unforgivable sin: he’d looked through a telescope and told people what he saw. The earth moves around the sun, he said. The evidence was irrefutable.…

  • The Theology of Worship

    The Theology of Worship

    Worship is the declaration of God’s holiness and glory and our surrender before Him.

  • The Framework We Forgot: When Disease Looks Healthy

    The Framework We Forgot: When Disease Looks Healthy

    The first article in this series ended with questions that matter more than we realize: What are human beings designed to be and do? What does flourishing actually look like? We can’t answer. Not because the questions are too complex, but because we’ve lost the framework that could orient us. Without that framework, we can’t…

  • When Kindness Kills: The Hidden Danger of Affirming Speech

    When Kindness Kills: The Hidden Danger of Affirming Speech

    We live in a world where words have become weapons. To disagree is treated as a form of violence. To challenge someone’s ideas is oppressive. Words that make someone uncomfortable are harmful. The only acceptable speech is speech that affirms, mirroring back to people exactly what they already believe about themselves. We’ve reduced life-giving speech…

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