Why Christian Speaking Christian… In the face of religious decline and mistrust, and our highly personalized (narcissistic) culture and the infighting and divides that happen even within Christianity, in spite of all of that, I still believe Christianity has much to offer the world. Over the last few weeks, I’ve tried to make my case,…
Sermons from March 2017
I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Many of the wrongs done in the name of religion, in the name of Christianity, can thank a particularly destructive interpretation of these words from the Gospel of Matthew. These are not easy words of Jesus, and they require us to look past the years…
As we journey through Lent this year, we are considering the question Why Christian? We may be able to identify why we’re here every week, and next week, we’ll deeply consider how we got here, but for others, outside of habit alone, we haven’t considered what it means to invest our time, our energy, our…
Why Christian Why anything (when religion is blamed for this world’s problems)? For many of us, we rarely consider why we believe. We’ve spent countless hours mulling over what we believe, we’ve rationalized how we’re going to live out our faith life, some of us needing church weekly, others connecting just a few times a…