living the Gospel in an everyday world
Western Seminary is giving away a FREE copy of Logos 5. Although the Starter Edition lacks some of the better tools that you’ll get with higher-level packages, it’s still a $249 value and a great place to start building your digital library. Here are the details for the giveaway. They’ve made it very easy to…
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I am in the great town of Milwaukee tonight, home of century old breweries and Polish steeples and site of this year’s Evangelical Theological Society Meetings. I am here to present a paper, as well as listen to a number of scintillating, brilliant, and fascinating papers by colleagues in fields from philosophy to theology to…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week The Gospel as Center (Book Review). Gospel-centered. It’s everywhere. Not quite as ubiquitous as air, but it feels like it sometimes. We even use it at Western Seminary to describe the core of our mission: Gospel-Centered Transformation. But what does it mean? And what difference does it really make for life and…
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I was sitting with a group of young wives I had just met. One woman was days away from delivering her first baby, so it was natural for the conversation to turn to babies and childbirth and even more natural I suppose for them to be curious about me, since I was the only mother…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week So, Isn’t it Time You Start a Family? Kari and her husband have been trying for four long years to conceive a child; the beautiful spontaneity of their love is becoming a clinical task: taking temperatures, counting days, running tests and more tests. Month after month there is a…
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At forty-nine years old, Susan was disenchanted, angry, and hopeless. The sadness and hurt were clearly evident in her eyes. She began by stating that she did not believe counseling would work and was not sure why she had even made the appointment. One by one she listed all the situations, relationships, and events that…
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by Sol Rexius I’ve been a Christian for 23 years, a husband for 9 months, and a college pastor at the University of Oregon for 8. I love my God, my wife, and my job – in that order, but in different ways. And, in the last three years, I’ve learned a lot through my…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week The (Legalistic?) Gospel According to Peter. Peter clearly has a thing for obedience. And, to make things worse, he also tells us that this perfectly holy God is the one who will judge us “impartially” according to our deeds. That can’t be good. I don’t know about you, but I…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Without an Invitation, It’s Just a Story. I love it when people share the gospel story. Hearing them trace the grand narrative from creation, through the fall, into God’s faithful presence with his people Israel, all the way to the coming of Messiah and his life, death, resurrection, and…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Bloodstains on White Sheets. So, if you need to clean something, here’s my suggestion: don’t put blood on it. Yet that’s exactly what they do in the Old Testament. Got a dirty altar? Sprinkle some blood on it (Lev 16:19). Dirty house? More blood (Lev 14:52). Dirty person? Yep, again with…
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