Bonhoeffer talks of ministry in its many different forms. There is no one way to do ministry, however, there are clearly some ways that are more effective or perhaps better to live the life that God has called us to lead. God has been convicting me lately of many things…

Silence. It has almost become non-existent in today’s day and age. Text message tones. TV or radio running in the background. Traffic sounds. Chatter amongst groups of people. Silence. Hard to come by, yet craved by so many. I live out in the middle of the woods, where solitude is…

My love for Scripture has grown exponentially over the past few years. My faith has grown deeper, and in that depth, I have recognized the precious value that the Holy Scriptures hold and how for most of my life, I have taken them for granted. I too, just like Bonhoeffer…

Commune Together This blog is now switching gears and will be moving from focusing on content from J Gresham Machen to spending time with the infamous theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, specifically his book Life Together. In chapter one, Bonhoeffer focuses on the importance of community in a Christian’s spiritual walk, and…

I know I shouldn’t be grumpy when it comes to conversations about the church, but right now, I’m honestly pretty grumpy. You’d think in Lancaster County of all places I would be able to find a doctrinally sound church that exegetes Scripture properly. But it has been months of “church…

Every other religion in the world believes that human beings can somehow work to save themselves. But Christianity in its purest form believes that there is nothing man can do to save himself, only the Creator God can save him. And that is where liberal Christians seem to have gone…

Who is the Christ? Why is He significant? And why do Christian liberals insist on contorting who the Messiah was in order to fit the narrative that they wish to impose? J. Gresham Machen addresses these questions in chapter 5 of Christianity and Liberalism. Most liberal Christians I interact with…

As always, Machen walks circles around any opposing ideas that happen to crop up. In chapter 4 of Christianity and Liberalism, Machen discusses the importance of the Bible to the Christian faith. Modern liberal Christians would much rather adhere to the Christian experience and hold strictly to the words in…

In Chapter three of “Christianity and Liberalism”, Machen hits on many excellent points regarding God and Man, the nature of sin, and the blurred lines that the modern church insists on pushing. I won’t name names, but the kind of teachers that conveniently ignores the topic of sin and preaches…