Where is the Higher Voice?

“Many millennials who have turned their backs on religious tradition because it isn’t sufficiently diverse or inclusive have found alternative scripture online. Our new belief system is a blend of left- wing political orthodoxy, intersectional feminism, self- optimization (many even among the churched are guilty), therapy, wellness, astrology and Dolly Parton. Left-wing secular millennials may follow politics devoutly. But the women we’ve chosen as our moral leaders aren’t challenging us to ask the fundamental questions that leaders of faith have been wrestling with thousands of years: Why are we here? Why do we suffer? What should we believe in beyond the limits of our puny selfhood? The whole economy of Instagram is based on our thinking about ourselves, working in ourselves. I have hardly prayed to God since I was a teenager, but the pandemic has cracked open inside me a profound yearning for reverence, humility and awe. I have an overdraft on my outrage account. I want moral authority from someone who isn’t shilling a memoir or calling out her enemies on social media for a clout.”

- Leigh Stein

Not Enough Bruises!

"One of the biggest problems with modern Christianity - Too many self proclaimed, self published “theologians” and not enough calloused handed, bruised footed, sore backed followers of Jesus."

- Todd Hooper

What Love Enemies Means.

Speaking about Jesus' command to love our enemies...

"This is the supreme command in the medium of prayer: we go to our persecutors, stand by their side and plead to God for them."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Got A Better Story?

"When I tried to unpack the first sentence of Genesis, in the context of the broader biblical narrative, what appears to be happening is that there is a proposition that God is guided by love and uses truth to create. It's something like that. And maybe "love" is something like the wish that all being would flourish.

There isn't a better story than that."

- Jordan Peterson

That Bible Book That Isn't A Novel

We read 25 other books a year.

But think it great that we undertake to read the NT, in its entirety once.

Or like most not read it the Old and New Testament even once in a whole lifetime.

"Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.”

- R.C. Sproul

Half Repentance! Our Favorite Kind.

"It is one thing to plead with God to forgive. 

It is another thing to plead for God to transform.

We must do both in repentance.....

David did not only ask for God to clean his record. He also asked God to clean his heart."

- Joel (some reformed guy I heard and I ain't digging for his last name)

Relishing In An Enemy

"I think a huge part of this is the desire to have an enemy....

It's and easy route to self-righteousness; to have an enemy.....

It's and easy place to put all evil."

- Jordan Peterson -

Education Isn't Neutral

"There is no such thing as a neutral education, because there are no neutral facts.
This is why education is a subset of discipleship."

- Brian Saivé -