Author: Steve

  • March 6, 2008
    The church encounters the experience of grace in worship where a prayer of intercession invites us to crawl out of…

  • March 5, 2008
    What does it look like in the life of an ordinary church? Mark and Julia had been having a pretty…

  • March 4, 2008
    If we are going to discern the Word of God as it takes on flesh in our congregations, then we…

  • March 3, 2008
    Any consideration of the Word being made flesh in the continuing Body of Christ must recognize that God accommodates the…

  • February 28, 2008
    For people to encounter Christ in the Body of Christ, they must believe that he is indeed present. Otherwise they…

  • February 27, 2008
    Hans Kung states, "the church is essentially more than what it appears to be. It is not an ordinary people…

  • February 25, 2008
    Too often we think of the Christian community as the church which we attend. We forget that the Body of…

  • February 22, 2008
    Bonhoeffer, in his book, Christ the Center, emphasizes that our central question must be "Who is Christ for me?" (Christ…

  • February 20, 2008
    While I believe it is important that we reexamine the divine nature of the church, this is not to suggest…

  • February 19, 2008
    The early church had fierce debates over whether Jesus was human or divine. The party known as the Ebionites emphasized…