Picture this: you're 21, idealistic, and convinced that putting a Bible on the communion table is a stroke of liturgical genius. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as it turns out. I was an intern at a small church where the communion table received the full Martha Stewart
Anthony Parrott
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Every time Jesus says "you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds," Christians tend to immediately think "Second Coming" - but we've got the direction completely backwards. In a previous post, I talked about how Jesus barely mentions his second coming.
Peter literally denied knowing Jesus three times in front of a crowd, but Jesus still made him the leader of the early church. That should inform our understanding of what forgiveness and grace really mean. But let's back up and talk about what faith used to cost people.
The establishment of monarchy in ancient Israel was a theological disaster that God explicitly opposed—which should fundamentally challenge how we conceptualize divine authority today.
The moment we think we're too important to serve, we've missed the entire point of following the Guy who said "the last shall be first."
Conservative Christians have quite the relationship with Romans 13. When Republicans are in power, they'll quote "be subject to governing authorities" with three flag emojis and a sense of divine vindication. But the moment Democrats win an election? Suddenly that Bible verse gets real quiet, replaced
My first study Bible was the End Times Prophecy Study Bible. I loved the Left Behind series and devoured every single book. When I started college, I was fully convinced that George W. Bush was God's servant who had helped kick-start the final events that would lead to
On Thursday I wrote about the corruption of Eli's sons in First Samuel 2—how they exploited their religious authority to shake down worshippers and abuse women who came to serve at the temple. I talked about the institutional failure that enabled their behavior and the spiritual damage