[Note: this is the second in a series of posts working through Greg Boyd’s recently released Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in…
andrewarndtSeptember 5, 2017
The roots of our hatred are always fear. I heard the White Supremacists say, “We’re taking it back” from the objects of their loathing. "Was it ever taken from you?"…
andrewarndtAugust 14, 2017
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am an emotionally complex guy. (My wife will be the first to testify.) I can vacillate wildly between hope and despair, joy…
andrewarndtJuly 12, 2017
One of the saddest things I routinely encounter as a pastor is the reality that most people’s prayer lives hover somewhere between barely-hanging-on and utterly non-existent. That is sad because…
andrewarndtJune 16, 2017
“Son of man,” the Lord asked the prophet Ezekiel, many centuries ago, “Can these bones live?” These bones that represented the waste and devastation that had become Israel; Israel, that…
andrewarndtJune 5, 2017
The way some people talk about growth in resurrection life, you’d think it all happens in a day. When I was a kid, from time to time, traveling preachers would…
andrewarndtApril 17, 2017
She came up to me after a service one Sunday night. Tears in her eyes, trembling, she was still holding the sacrament in her fingers--a bit of bread, soggy and…
andrewarndtMarch 1, 2017
I grew up in an almost totally non-liturgical family and church tradition. “Non-denominational charismatic” is how I’ve often described by background to people who ask. My parents and most of…
andrewarndtApril 22, 2015
"On the evening of that first day of the week," John says, "when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood…
andrewarndtApril 14, 2015
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