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March 2021

March 10, 2021

Why We Feel Lonely – with Eric O. Jacobsen

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December 2020

December 21, 2020

Igniting Christmas Hope in the Midst of Hardship – with Sam Van Eman

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October 2020

October 06, 2020

Are You Prepared for the Accelerated Change of the 2020s? – with Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen

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March 2020

March 30, 2020

Three Steps to Get Your Work Bearings During the Pandemic

Staying at home during the Coronavirus pandemic has been disorienting. For some of us, this...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Apologetics Beyond Reason

An Emmanuel Apologetic What if we moved our apologetic away from reasoned arguments toward telling...

January 23, 2020

Letter to my younger self

Hi Bob, It’s me. Bob. I know! Right? Freaky that I’d write to you from...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

The Three Major Needs of Spiritual Formation

My doctoral mentor, Steven Garber, did his doctoral research on how people were able to...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Shalom is the Way it is Meant to Be

PEACE. It has the connotation in English of quiet tranquility and calm restfulness. But in...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

The Gospel: Both “Social Action” and “Evangelism”

Ronald J. Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and author of Rich Christians in an...

August 05, 2015

Subversive for the Common Good: Seek the Welfare of the City

God, through the prophet Jeremiah, not only tells those in the Babylonian exile to live...

August 05, 2015

Holistic Mission for the Church

Christopher Wright, in addressing the Lausanne Committee, wrote, “Holistic mission includes the whole of what...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Knowing Always Means Doing

Blood:Water Mission and the Need to Do Something. Now that we know, what are we...

July 23, 2015

Models of a Civilization

We are at a moment in our nation where various ideologies as to how society...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Restoring Homes to Restore a Community

Vocation and the High Calling of Construction. In this high-quality, five-minute video, Kimberly Renner explains...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Serving the City, Shaping the Political Community – David Kim

Our friends at the Center for Public Justice introduced the Kuyper Lecture in 1995 to...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Joy’s Story: The Value and Dignity of Work

David Spickard is the President and CEO of Jobs for Life (JfL), a global non-profit...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Christian Faithful Presence in the Culture

If Christians are to be “missional,” then we must take seriously that our work, as...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

“We Had Fun”: Living into God’s Shalom

It is high-time for us to re-embrace beauty as much as truth and goodness (see...

December 2012

December 05, 2012

Who is to Blame for the Secularization of our Culture?

As I said earlier this week, a major theme I hear in evangelical churches is...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

Christianity for the Common Good

Andy Crouch, of Christianity Today and author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, wrote...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Christian Community As Counter-Culture

Contemporary American Reflections on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together In American culture, we believe the opposite of...

August 27, 2012

Relationships: The Context for Living the Coherent Christian Life

But is it really possible? Sometimes I wonder... Steve Garber, in his book, The Fabric of...

August 23, 2012

When Evangelicals are Missional, Their Witness to the World Gets a Hearing

Even The New York Times notices The evangelical church is finally turning the corner. For most of...

August 15, 2012

Work in Community for Community

Humanity is built for community and community is built for humanity. We were created to work in harmony...