Been on Facebook lately? It’s full of global news and national controversies. In today’s piece, Aaron Perry works through several rival ethical systems and suggests that Christians ought to evaluate how we respond to current events in the news.
Most people consider their annual family vacation a time to get away from it all, including church. But is this a wise choice? In today’s article, Aaron Perry shares 5 reasons why he tries to faithfully go to church every time he’s on vacation.
Love is the summary of the law. Love contains all components of the law. If you want to love, put all these things together. If you want to love, it means not having gods ahead of the true God and honoring your father and mother and not bearing false testimony and not coveting, etc. These commands do not boil down to love; they add up to love.
On this island, no one else bears responsibility for another’s self-fulfillment. Where there is power for one’s own self-action, there is also absolution for any sin. I am not responsible to another if they have the power of self-creation. Any failure to thrive is the other’s burden. After all, they have the power to create their own context and I bear no responsibility to them.
What is expository preaching, and does it only count when a preacher goes through a biblical passage verse by verse? In today’s article, Aaron Perry reveals how the mixture of sermons in the Book of Acts demonstrate a practical way of reaching a broad audience with the contextualized message of the gospel.
Hozier believes that something in you dies when you give yourself in the human act of sex. Yet when there is a kind of relationship, this death must go both ways. The lover becomes not just the one who gives their life, but the one who takes the other’s life. This mutual deathless death is the closest you get to love and happiness on the sex-as-happiness path.
How can we respond during times of deep tragedy, such as the recent news of Robin Williams’ death? Aaron Perry suggests that the portrait we have of Jeremiah the prophet—capturing the complexity of injury and morality, joy and despair—offers a corrective to the common way of handling difficult events.
“If you think you’re leading and no one is following you, then you’re only taking a walk.” Makes sense, doesn’t it? Yes, but it’s a lie. Well, maybe not a lie, but certainly misleading. Couched
I am a conference junkie. It’s part of my Wesleyan heritage. In the Wesleyan tradition, we value conferences. Wesleyans have seen the value not just of thinking of conference as a noun, but as a
“To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can’t just tell ’em to forget everything you know if you gotta make ’em forget even their bones… make ’em so tired
Theology is my first love, leadership is my field, and pastoral ministry is my calling. This makes for trouble. Don’t theologians doubt the theological rigor of pastors and don’t pastors scoff at the missional effectiveness
