Bible
Prodigal God Ch 4: Redefining Lostness
Anger and Superiority (pp48-57) Slavishness and Emptiness (pp57-65) Who Needs to Know This? (p65-72) Back to the book overview
Bible
Prodigal God Ch 3: Redefining Sin
Two Ways to Find Happiness (pp29-33) Two Lost Sons (pp33-37) A Deeper Understanding of Sin (pp37-44) Both Wrong; Both Loved (p44-47) Back to the book overview
Bible
Prodigal God Ch 2: The Two Lost Sons
The Lost Younger Brother (pp17-19) The Younger Brother’s plan (pp20-25) The Lost Elder Brother (pp25-28) Back to the book overview
Bible
Prodigal God Ch 1: The People Around Jesus
Two Kinds of People (pp7-11) Why People Like Jesus but Not the Church (pp11-16) Back to the book overview
Bible
Trust as an act of faith
If trust is necessary for good relationships, how do we trust people who seem trustworthy (for any reason)? One answer may be trusting God to be good even when other people are not
Anthropology
Missionary Construction
I’m not sure if missionary construction is more or less well known than missionary linguistics, but they are likely both a bit of a mashup for most people. I took this picture on my way home last week (stuck in holiday traffic, plenty of time to get the shot…) as Read more…
Anthropology
Perfectionism and the Strife to Enter Rest
for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Hebrews 4:10-11 (ESV) This passage I have long found difficult to understand, and Read more…
Anthropology
Ministry in a Time of COVID
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of Read more…
Anthropology
Peninnah and Promises
I never met a woman named Peninnah until I lived in Africa. I recall first hearing this name, mostly because it was so strikingly novel that I assumed it was a mistake, and had to ask her name again. Even my spellchecker doesn’t recognize this name. But since that first Read more…
