By The Christian Humanists

Luke 24:13-35By Ryan Pfeiffer

John 20:1-18By Ryan Pfeiffer

What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s mainly a collection of magic spells for the court sorcerers to draw from when they need this or that kind of wizardry. And on the other end of things, in our little corner of the…

Matthew 21:1-17By Ryan Pfeiffer

John 11:38-57 This Sunday we continue in the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from death to life (John 11:38-57) as part of our RISE series leading to Easter.By Nic Gilmour

If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for different reasons, some writers in Biblical studies seem bent on discovering, naming, and insisting on a particular significance for any text that looks like, sounds like, works like, and otherwise resembles …

John 11:1-37 This weekend we will begin our new series for the Easter season called Rise. We’re going to take a four-week journey together to prepare our hearts for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.By Joseph Carlson

Mark Foreman shares an important message with us on Christians and Politics. Mark recently shared this teaching at a pastors’ gathering and it was so phenomenal we wanted him to bring it to our church family. He has great wisdom for us as Christians in America right now on how to lift our political concerns up to the heights of the kingdom of God, …

History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things that might have been. In the realm of Black religion in the United States, the what-if questions and counterfactuals wonder about a seventy-year-old Dr…

John 4:39-42 - This is the final message in our "Well Said" series on Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in John 4. Sign up for Gospel Conversations, an excellent follow-up workshop to help you further develop tools for sharing the good news of Jesus and build your confidence in doing so in a natural, conversational way. It’s a 3-week c…

John 4:10-26 - As we continue in our Well Said series about Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well, we are focusing on the living water that Jesus offers to us and those around us.By Ryan Pfeiffer

This weekend we continue our series on John 4 called Well Said. I want to encourage you to take a moment to read John 4:1-10, the passage we will focus on as we take time to learn ways to engage in Gospel Conversations with the people in our lives.By Debbie Samuels

John 4:27-38By Ryan Pfeiffer

John 13:1-9, 15 - This weekend in our series Rhythms for Renewal we explore the role of service in our lives & how it strengthens us in our relationship with the Lord.By Ryan Pfeiffer

Acts 2:42-47By Ryan Pfeiffer

2 Timothy 3-12-4:-5By Mark Friestad

Luke 6:46-49By Ryan Pfeiffer

Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus surveys on his way to the grand showdown between the Persians and the Greek-speaking city-states. Some of us have run into their legendary figures Sardanapallus and Semiramis in Dante or Byron. And of course so…

Matthew 2:1-12By Mark Friestad

Luke 2:1-21By Ryan Pfeiffer

Matthew 1:18-35By Joseph Carlson

Luke 1:39-56By Mark Foreman

You have heard that it is said: love your neighbor and hate your enemy. Translations might differ, but what follows comes across well in most translations: Jesus enjoins those hearing the Sermon on the Mount to love enemies and pray for persecutors. Those unsettling commandments never stop scandalizing those who spend time meditating on them, and t…

Luke 1:26-38By Ryan Pfeiffer

Luke 1:1-25By Nic Gilmour

Jonah 4:4-11By Ryan Pfeiffer

Theology and literature have always seemed a natural pair to me. In fact, I’ve written a Master’s Thesis examining Ezekiel with the help of William Blake; another digging into Christology through Aemelia Lanier and John Milton; and a doctoral dissertation arguing that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton were making moves in theological ethics that the…

Jonah 4:1-3By Ryan Pfeiffer

Jonah 3:10By Ryan Pfeiffer

The stereotype, whether we want to dismantle it or acknowledge it, holds that those who teach college English begin a quest in graduate school to be rid of teaching writing. As early as the mid-twentieth century Richard M. Weaver told the same story, and Weaver was among the first to take that stereotype not as an acknowledgment of rerum naturem bu…

Jonah 3:4-9By Mark Foreman

Jonah 3:1-3By Ryan Pfeiffer

With Theology Beer Camp 2023 just around the corner (alas, I won’t be here, as I’m trying to be judicious taking days off during year one of my career change), I wanted to get Myron Penner’s talk from last year’s camp, along with our conversation that happened a spell later, out to you. Here’s the backstory: Myron and I did a live podcast back in O…

Genesis–Bereshith in the Hebrew–opens with grand narratives of beginnings and generations, and the New Testament starts with four distinctive narrative accounts of Jesus, the anointed one. For traditions that consider theology an interpretive endeavor at the outset, then, stories are the start, and Psalms and hymns and prophetic verse follow close …

By Ryan Pfeiffer

Jonah 1:17-2:10By Abel Mendez

Jonah 1:11-16By Ryan Pfeiffer

Jonah 1:4-10By Ryan Pfeiffer

Jonah 1:1-3By Ryan Pfeiffer

Psalm 23:6By Mark Foreman

Psalm 23:5By Ryan Pfeiffer

Psalm 23:4By Nate Alcorn

Psalm 23:3bBy Joseph Carlson

Psalm 23:2-3By Ryan Pfeiffer

Psalm 23:1By Ryan Pfeiffer

Revelation 3:14-22By Bob Mackenzie

Revelation 3:7-13By Ryan Pfeiffer

Revelation 3:1-6By Ryan Pfeiffer

Revelation 2:18-29By Mark Foreman