One of the common themes of this blog is the danger of disconnected doctrine.  The clearest example of this for me comes when grace becomes a doctrine and ceases to be a way of life; such as a sermon on the...

In my last post I wrote myself out onto a limb and almost cut it off behind me.  In part I was led out onto the limb by the author of the the book I was relying on for insight,...

A couple of weeks ago I read an interesting collection of quotes on the website, Brain Pickings, “Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World.” I couldn’t agree more. In...

A few years ago there were some major conflicts in our regional church council, the presbytery.  I found myself in the thick of it, sometimes being asked to publicly defend one of the sides.  I am willing to speak my...