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#WCSK Episode 2.10b: The Sabbath
Picking up from last week… Sabbath as Resistance The Sabbath was instituted as a formal national command to Israel after God freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. While the Jews were in Egypt, they lived amidst a culture that was oppressive, had no regard for life, and was not concerned with communal wellbeing. The Egyptian…
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#WCSK Episode 2.10a: The Sabbath
How this Biblical principle applies to your everyday life: Introduction If I were to piggyback and use the lesson on sanctification to sum up this lesson in two sentences, here it is: Sanctification refers to the pursuit of holiness in space. The Sabbath refers to the pursuit of holiness in time. Of course, one reason why Christians…
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#WCSK Episode 0.1b: Why the Five Core Doctrines?
Picking up from last week … Why the Trinity? The Trinity is a unique truth claim of Christianity. God is relational and was in a relationship with Himself before the appearance of humankind, and this relationality informs our relationship with The Lord and with others. This especially defines the contours of interpersonal relations, to point…
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#WCSK Episode 0.1a: Why the Five Core Doctrines?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. Many readers have now stumbled upon the “Five Core Doctrines of the Christian Faith” that is detailed both within the first few…
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#WCSK Episode 2.9b: Sanctification (The Christian Walk)
Picking up from last week … Sanctification is active not passive I mentioned previously that sanctification is cooperative, meaning that neither does God do all the work while we sit back and watch nor do we labor while The Lord supervises. The cooperative part of sanctification means that after God enables and empowers us to…