More Than a Game
Online gambling is becoming a normalized and harmful temptation, and it’s time to address it.
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Online gambling is becoming a normalized and harmful temptation, and it’s time to address it.
Love means acknowledging that other people are made in God’s image, and pursuing God’s best for them, often in a way that is self-sacrificial.
Scripture tells us to be like Jesus. Does that mean we should call hypocritical leaders “blind fools” and a “brood of vipers” like Jesus does in Matthew 23? Does imitating Jesus mean we should make a whip of cords, curse a fig tree, and flip a table in a temple? Should we make it our goal to do the same? And if not, why not? Clearly it is not enough to say we should imitate Jesus, as if that answers every question. We need to think a bit more carefully about this question. We should not go out of our...
Vocation reminds us that work is not the opposite of life; rather it is one of the deepest ways we answer God’s call to become fully human and to participate in his care and renewal of the world.
Jesus does not demand something from us that he has not himself endured. Indeed, we suffer because we follow a suffering Saviour.
