What’s Your Motive?

In community group on Friday, I asked a question to the group that has been mulling around in my mind for a while: If you could change the world, but no one would know it was you, would you still do it?
What drives your life? Why are you doing what you are doing? What’s your [...]

The Battery Life of Christian Cultural Influence Cont.

After about a month of not finishing this article I finally took some time to sit down and complete my thoughts on this issue.
The percentage of “churched” Americans has continued to rise over the last 100 years. Yet at the same time there is a sense that especially since the 1960’s there has been a [...]

The Stupidity of the Cross

Here is the audio from my latest sermon at RPTS, the text I preached from was 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, the Sermon was entitled The Stupidity of the Cross.

My Jesus is weak.

I must repent, I have a defective view of who Jesus is. My defect is not that I put too much into my view of who Jesus, but too little. I know in my head that he is my propitiation, but his propitiation is too weak. I know the doctrinal truths of the historic creeds, [...]

Messy Christianity

One of the things that I mosted notices when I came to City Reformed was that it was really messy work. One of the biggest sins Christians fall into is thinking that people need to “clean up” their lives before they start coming to church, this tends to create very tidy very safe spaces, where [...]