It was a gradual process. To be honest, even during my time in the “Reformed Camp”, even while a member of the OPC (often satirically dubbed the One Perfect Church) and even when some online referred to me as Truly Reformed, I had uneasy feelings about celebrating Martin Luther. I’d read some of his writings […]
Another blast from the past, 20 years ago: When Saul was confronted by Jesus on the road to Damascus, Jesus did not say, “Saul, why are you persecuting my followers?” He did not say, “Saul, why are you persecuting the people under my command?” He said, “Saul, why do you persecute Me?” When someone hits […]
It’s been 20 years since I wrote the following: While visiting a Lutheran church yesterday, and feeling far more connected to historic Christianity than I do in my Baptist church, it struck me that perhaps modern evangelicalism is inherently at risk of following every fad and wind of doctrine by our very rejection of centuries […]
For most of my life I rejected the historic church without even realizing what it was that I was rejecting. Then I came to my senses, decided to look back in history, and traced my theological lineage and beliefs back to my understanding of the Reformation, as if true Christianity got lost quickly after the […]
A comment on FB I wrote a year ago: Some years ago, a preacher from Texas rocked my world with a series of lessons that — although I argued with him vehemently at first — ultimately ushered me into what we dubbed my “fall TO grace”. I’d been trapped in quite some legalistic system and […]
Ah, but Gandhi was hardly a Christian, some might point out. His ideas of prayer and our ideas should be fundamentally very different. Aren’t we praying to entirely different Beings? I’m reminded of another Gandhi quote:
And then there is a Bible quote:
Adventures in prayer 