“You are citizens of heaven…” Paul’s Letter to the Church in Philipi For a Roman citizen, citizenship was not about longing to go back to Rome. Rather, citizenship was about carrying the values, culture, and ethos of Rome with you. Where a citizen was, there Rome was too. So
Anthony Parrott
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I've got a premarital counseling couple in front of me. They're bickering because one of them is always bringing up their feelings about their problems, and the other one is always trying to solve the other one's problems. In your mind, which one is a man and which one is a woman?
The goals of every worship leader and team are the same: excellence which leads to participation. If the congregation can't sing along, you're no longer hosting a worship service but a concert. Concerts are great, don't get me wrong. But it's not usually what people are looking for from a church.
I am so grateful that The Table Church values sabbath and rest. We believe that people are not commodities. Humans are not merely resources. Because of this, built into both Pastor Tonetta and I’s job agreement is the gift—and expectation—of a sabbatical. A ministry sabbatical is a
Wormism is the notion, particularly popular in certain expressions of Christianity, that you and I are nothing but lowly, nasty, dirty worms. We're untrustworthy, "prone to wander,"[1] and utterly despicable. Some Christians agree with this worm-like categorization due to original sin and The Fall of
I preached the below SEVEN years ago. I studied and sought to understand my trans kin because I was curious and wanted to fulfill Christ's command to love my neighbors as myself. Christians, we can and must do better about engaging in curiosity and not judgment when it
People often cite "Spare the rod, spoil the child" as a Bible verse about the need for spanking children. "In my day, my dad beat me with a belt, and I turned out better than these entitled millennials!" they'll say. Let's get
New Testament authors routinely took Hebrew Bible metaphors and redeemed them by re-reading and reinterpreting them through the lens of Christ. In my church's Ezekiel Bible Study this week, we wrestled with Ezekiel 16. It's an extended metaphor of Israel as an abandoned child that God