In reformed circles we are really good at hitting total depravity. Maybe it’s just me projecting, but I feel like my students get that our human nature (without Christ) is totally opposed to God. And when we talk about sin - often - we focus on how it applies to us. But if I were to ask students, “what is sin?” I’m not so sure how they would answer. Not just students, but how would you answer this? I think we all know when we commit a sin. But how do we define it. This questi

“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”[1] What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? How we answer this question drastically alters the foundation of Christianity. There is a recent movement in progressive Christianity that explores inclusion of homosexuality into Orthod

If you look at any human relationship – any meaningful one at that – you will find injustice from either party. It is inescapable, humanity defaults toward relational injustice. We cause harm to those we love, and those who love us. We do this not just in our horizontal relationships, but in our vertical relationship with God. How is man made right with God? This is the question, the most important question anyone can ask. Therefore, the answer we come to must be correct. The

Is God the Father, a cosmic child abuser? Did Jesus need to die? Could God have simply forgiven the sins of the whole world?