The Potential Impact of Christian Hospitality
By Shawn Lazar What does a practical “Christian spirituality” look like? That’s what I’m trying to understand as I seek to follow the Lord more closely and to raise my kids to do the same. The problem those of us in the Free Grace movement face is that so much of today’s teaching about “spirituality” […]
Bye Bye Netflix
By Shawn Lazar Since having kids, my wife and I have time to watch maybe one show a night. It often takes two or three nights to finish a movie. But over the last four or five years, finding things to watch has become increasingly difficult. We’ve had to tune out more and more shows […]
How Jesus Received Hospitality
What does an authentic Christian spirituality look like? Recently I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the Biblical commands concerning hospitality. To my surprise, I discovered that it is a major Biblical theme and an important part of what it means to follow Christ. We’re called to love our neighbors, and that means showing them […]
What Edward Fudge Can’t Believe about The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)
Now that our revised The Grace New Testament Commentary is out, I can go back to finishing up two or three book projects, such as on the “atonement” and “hell.” My book on hell will, so far (I can still be convinced of a different view), defend eternal conscious torment (ECT)—though not the ECT of […]
Six Raptures?
Do you believe in the Rapture? I do. But not everyone does. The very idea of the Rapture is regularly denounced as nonsense by non-Dispensational Christian theologians (see here). But is the idea of the rapture Biblical? I was perusing this conservative Mennonite commentary/study guide on Revelation. I haven’t read through it yet, but I […]
Bye Bye Netflix
Since having kids, my wife and I have time to watch maybe one show a night. It often takes two or three nights to finish a movie. But over the last four or five years, finding things to watch has become increasingly difficult. We’ve had to tune out more and more shows because of their […]
Hospitality to the Lonely
It’s been 17 years since Robert Putnam’s best-selling book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community sounded the alarm about societal changes driving new levels of isolation and alienation; by now, most of us know that loneliness isn’t a problem to be laughed off. Researchers warn that we are in the midst of […]
Alexander Strauch on the Potential Impact of Christian Hospitality
What does a practical “Christian spirituality” look like? That’s what I’m seeking to understand as I seek to follow the Lord more closely and to raise my kids to do the same. The problem those of us in the Free Grace movement typically realize is that so much of today’s teaching about “spirituality” assumes a […]
Some Strong Language About Sanctification and Sin
What does it mean to be sanctified? What’s supposed to happen to the sin in your life? As I’ve been meditating on that subject—wondering to what extent Scripture describes sanctification as a process, or as an event, or as both—I noticed some of the verbs that Paul uses to describe what has happened, or what […]
Jesus on How Not to Pray (Matthew 6:5-7)
The Lord’s Prayer may be one of the most famous prayers in the world. The vast majority of Christians—from Catholic to Charismatic—say it regularly. It’s something we can all agree on, isn’t it? But what if the vast majority have managed to get it wrong? Right before Jesus gave us that model prayer, He emphasized […]