In his autobiographical work, Augustine of Hippo tells the honest story of the restless searching of his heart for fulfillment in various ways over a long period, which many have identified with their own search for happiness.
The theme of ‘witnesses’ – people who’ve experienced something – speaks to something that is really distinctive to the Christian faith. Christianity is not a philosophy – though it can incorporate philosophy; it’s not primarily a mysticism – though it can incorporate mysticism; it’s not a religion that comes welling up out of natural experience – though it can accommodate that. Christianity is about something that happened; and there were witnesses of it. Without that, Christianity falls apart.
What is the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead? I want to focus on just one feature that John the Apostle especially draws attention to in his gospel account – namely, the burial cloths left behind in the tomb.
A common question over the centuries, for those who believe in the existence of God and that he is the source of all being and is entirely good, has been: Then why does he allow evil and suffering?
If you haven’t yet watched ‘The Chosen’, I encourage you to consider viewing it in this New Year. It will help you see Jesus as so much more relatable.
As I shared in a recent post, it’s only been in recent years, that the reality of Jesus being fully man and the importance of that has come home to me. Why is it so important that Jesus was & is fully human too; and not only fully God? The short answer is that He
One of the beautiful truths about Jesus’ birth that’s come home more to me, is that it reveals God’s preferred style of approaching us: “which is neither grandiose nor noisy, but rather a style characterized by hiddenness and littleness.”
Have you ever heard the original lyrics of the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”? Have you listened to the lyrics carefully? It’s not exactly the blissful naiveté of “Deck the Halls”. It’s much more real and raw than that. Many of us are familiar with the children’s version of the Christmas story,
If God wanted to simply tell us a message of give us an example, he could have sent someone else. The one thing he could do by coming to us, is to be with us in our suffering. In other words, he has compassion on you; he wants to be with you in what we’re
Is Jesus truly God AND Man? In this article, I want to focus on the astonishing claim that the Christian Tradition makes. And that we celebrate at Christmas. And why that really matters.
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