What does a body of Christ, to whom and for whom the Spirit gives gifts, “look like” when it is functioning as it ought? We know what are the characteristics of a physical body. What are the characteristics of a gifted and well body of Christ?

This Christmas you might receive a gift that, its good intentions notwithstanding, could not miss more as to whether it fits you. There’s a whole movement of companies now that try to match products with the particularities of people known as...

It’s been said that you are what you do when no one is looking. In other words the character of your life is revealed in the private moments of solitude. In Paul’s day the conventional mark of true spirituality was the public demonstrations of...

We spent nine weeks considering each “slice” of the one, unified, varied but interdependent fruit of the Spirit. Why? To feel good about our virtue? No, but to attend to what kind of people we are meant to become so that we might face both death and...

For our Global Missions Sunday we will center our study on The Great Commission with a special guest panel of our Grace Missionaries who serve around the world.

These days the words most reported are those which are the loudest or the most boldly confrontational. Doubtless fierce and impassioned words are fitting at times. But what if any place does gentleness have in our discourse and relationships?...

If we reflect even a little, whatever strength, skill, fortitude, or goodness we might possess is owed to the faithful care and concern of others. If we consider longstanding ideas, or enduring works of art and architecture, there is no accounting for...

You typically hear when someone has died, “she was a good person.” Without having them elaborate further, we know intuitively what they mean: someone without pretense, or eminently trustworthy, or deeply kind. When addressed as a “good teacher” Jesus...

arly in the existence of what Jesus first called the church, Luke writes that “great grace was upon them.” They were marked by grace–both in what had come to them but in what was now being manifest in and through them. Grace shaped them. And what...

What Jesus locates in close proximity to each other Paul nearly fuses together in a single closing of a letter–namely, the Spirit’s fruit of joy and peace. They are two sides of the same coin, or in keeping with Paul’s metaphor, adjacent slices of the...