1 Corinthians 4:6

This series was first published in January 2019. -ed. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (1 …

PART I: Reviewing the recent policy changes in the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) regarding credentialing divorced individuals Link to the revised policy document (click here). Background: The EFCA is a denomination with Scandinavian origins started in the United States in the 1880s. It became the current denomination under the name the Evangelical Free … Continue reading “DM Review: EFCA’s Revised Divorced Credentials Policy (Part I)”…

By Elizabeth Prata “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.” That is one of my all-time favorite movie lines. It comes from the 1987 Rom-Com movie ̶……

By Elizabeth Prata The most asked question and the most offered objection to Christianity are the two in the headline. Philosophers have struggled for eons to describe and resolve “the proble……

Exercise one- If you have a mirror handy go get it or go put yourself in front of one, and get very, very close. Get so close that you can center in on one of your pupils. Look intently until you……

By Elizabeth Prata illustration from Not a Box One week I read a book to the kids at school called “Not A Box” by Antoinette Portis. It is a book about imagination. An unseen narrator a……

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and……

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and……

By Elizabeth Prata We don’t often read those two words in one sentence, “mighty” and “humble,” let alone see those qualities in the same man. There are so many names i……

John 1:1b has the article before GOD, but omits it before GOD in 1:1c. Does this justify an indefinite translation; “the Word was a god?”…