Trained By The Father
Abe Meysenburg ~ 6/16/2013
How do I grieve? Evidently, it matters how we grieve. Paul mentions a godly grief and worldly grief (2 Corinthians 7:10). Believers are not to grieve “as those who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Grief and the Gospel – Part One was on open invitation to ...
My dad left our family when I was one. Like many men, his identity was wrapped up in his work, and I think his voluntary slavery to alcohol medicated his fear of failure. He lived in a van down by the river. Over the years I tried to visit occasionally, but stomaching the filth and squalor ...
We often talk about how our gospel identities as family, missionary and servant are lived out in the everyday rhythms of life. But for many of us life is full of irregular rhythms. We may have complicated work schedules, kids activities, or any number of other things that rise up as barriers to ...
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made... Romans 1:19-20 These verses are ...
When my husband and I moved our family from Richmond, Virginia to Tacoma, Washington, we had every intention of landing in a downtown area. We love the grit of urban living, not to mention the local shops and the walkability. The whole reason for relocating was to train and eventually church plant ...
Our theology does more than an adequate job of explaining the reality of the broken world in which we find ourselves. We know that God didn’t design the world to work this way, that sin has devastated the landscape of every relationship in all of creation, and that someday Jesus will restore ...
Hospitality is a forgotten art. It also has a lost biblical history. We can recover the art of hospitality by understanding what it is and discerning how the gospel changes our notions of hospitality. In general, hospitality is about treating strangers as equals by creating space for them to be ...
A video interview New Frontiers did at the Soma Tacoma office.
One of the leaders in our Soma church in San Diego, Red Door, wrote a great post on their blog that I wanted to pass along. If Jesus is the standard for what it means to be a man and he indwells us, Jesus’ love for kids should affect how we live, right? I’m grateful for all the ...
