Posts with the category “the-church”

The church, it would seem from the Scriptures, is given two perpetual offices by her Savior: namely, that of the elder and the deacon....  Read More

It is important to note at the start that the church does not get her language of “membership” from secular culture but from 1 Corinthians 12.  Listen to Paul, as he writes to the local church in Cori...  Read More

Meaningful community is hard to find in Silicon Valley, even in the church. The pace of life around us is frenetic; the jobs we hold are demanding, if not domineering; the grid we travel is congested;...  Read More

How’s your vision? Are you farsighted? Nearsighted? Are things always a bit blurry? Or is everything in focus? If we want to function at full capacity in this world, if we want to experience the manif...  Read More