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What is the biblical purpose of the church?

I have been giving a fair amount of thought recently to the question of how to express in a single sentence the...

posted on: May 13, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

Thursday is Ascension Day, and Sunday is Ascension Sunday. Most evangelical churches will do little to commemorate...

posted on: May 7, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

Because they won’t, even if they do. Marriage, you see, is binding oneself and giving oneself for life to someone...

posted on: Apr 23, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

For the context and setup for this post, read Believe and Eat! Like the Centurion of Mat 8.5-13, the woman of Canaan...

posted on: Apr 2, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

My daughter, Gwen, celebrates in this poem a wonderful but often unrecognized truth about Easter: resurrection is not...

posted on: Mar 30, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

If there is anything the world is convinced of, it is that happiness depends on loving and being loved. If there is...

posted on: Mar 7, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

Christians in America long ago restricted the lordship of Christ to a shrunken area called “spiritual...

posted on: Feb 18, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

Have you noticed how the culture war flash points are all sexual? Abortion, gay marriage, gender interchangeability,...

posted on: Jan 31, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

Jesus used this terminology often. (Mat 11.15; 13.9, 43; Mark 4.9, 23; 7.16; Luke 8.8; 14.35.) When he did so, he...

posted on: Jan 30, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow

“Remember, it is the remark of old and experienced men, that very few men, and very few ministers, keep up to...

posted on: Jan 26, 2013 | author: Alan Burrow