Share All people will know that you are my disciples, by your renowned ability to completely eviscerate one another during theological debate. [Satan] Sometimes I think we treat our theological differences like a boxing match. I can hear the announcer standing center ring proclaiming loudly, “IN THIS CORNER, THE DEFENDER OF THE DOCTRINES… THE GUARDIAN...
Share I’ll be at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida this week. I’ll be hanging with a few old seminary buddies and learning from some of the more prominent voices in American church planting. I’ve never heard some of these guys speak, so that’ll be good. I do wish I could hear more from the...
Share Lastly, it is concluded that sin which offends God is worthy of punishment. The means by which a person avoids punishment is provided for by God in Christ. Christ has to be more than the lwa and saints, someone to whom the peasant can come and ask for help. In all the talk concerning...
Share While rural Haitians might misunderstand sin in the biblical context, they certainly are not immune from suffering the consequences of sin’s curse. Pain and suffering are their constant companions physically, economically, politically, and spiritually. In order to come to a proper biblical understanding of sin, three primary paradigm shifts must occur within their worldview....
Share There is a famous Haitian Creole proverb that translates, “Rocks in the river don’t know the pain of rocks in the sun.” Oftentimes, this is intended to denote the inability those who are affluent have in identifying with the emotional, mental, and physical grief of those suffering from acute poverty in Haiti. Unfortunately, this...
