Disclaimer: Christianity is NOT conservatism. God created and institutes governments. These governments should install His morality, for it is good, right, and prosperous. Political conservatism has been a longtime ally …
Isolated But Not Alone
WRITTEN BY DOMONIQUE LUCIO, a member of The Response Church. We are in a time of uncertainty. Daily news updates are becoming more and more concerning as COVID-19 spreads rapidly. …
DOES YOUR “GOD” EVER DISAGREE WITH YOU?
“If your god never disagrees with you, you may be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.” -Timothy Keller This has always been one of my all time favorite quotes by Timothy …
A Navy Seals Search for Masculinity
“It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit …
Anxiety, Panic Attacks, And The Gospel
About five years ago a handful of my closest friends and I moved across the country to plant a church. We had no idea how difficult of a task this …
Does ‘The Problem Of Evil’ Prove There Is No God?
About this time in 2008, I set out to find a solution to the problem of evil. In particular, I wanted a solution that fit well with the Bible’s emphatic, …
What Do I Do When I Feel Spiritually Dry?
When I first became a Christian, nobody told me that some days I just wouldn’t feel it. I wish they would have. It is truly disturbing when the afterglow of …
How To Completely Erase Your Shame
Shame is a powerful feeling. It is a “painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior”. Some of us have just one moment …
Have You Given Up On Finding Your Dream Job?
Frederick Buechner wrote that “Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” If vocation is defined as a person’s employment or occupation, then Buechner seems to …
Shamed For Our Good
The prodigal son. In this character of Jesus’ parable in Luke 15, we can see much about the heart of humanity. The son’s pride of thinking he knows better than …