Posts with the tag “love”

Most of us know what it is like to feel confident about following Christ in one setting and hesitant in another. It may be easy to speak about our faith at church, but much harder around a skeptical coworker. We may genuinely want to help someone who is struggling but hesitate because getting involved could become complicated. We may know that we need to forgive, speak the truth, serve, or share the gospel, yet fear begins asking, “What will this cost me? What if they reject me? What if this becomes uncomfortable?” It seems that Timothy knew something about that struggle.  Read More

For the past several weeks, we have been working through the marks of spiritual maturity in a sermon series titled "Growing in Christ." Part of that series has entailed a lot of discussion about what it means to be holy or godly in the Christian life. My aim for this blog today is to reinforce some of those truths.  Read More

Peter Randolph. Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit. Edited by Katherine Clay Bassard. West Virginia University Press. 2016. 309 pp. $21           If you're looking for a good book Christians will benefit from reading, look no further. Few people today possess a true sense of slavery's evil.  The autobiography of Peter Randolph, a former slave turned pastor-abolitionist and ...  Read More