Why does Jesus ascend to heaven? After rising from the dead, why doesn’t he simply stay?
Justin BaileyJuly 7, 2019
The Logic of Limitations: A Review of “The Common Rule”
Title: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction Author: Justin Whitmel EarleyPublisher: InterVarsity PressPublishing Date: February 19, 2019Pages: 160 (Paperback)ISBN: 978-0830845606 I once had a wise pastor tell me that while my twenties would be about learning what I can do, my thirties would be about learning what…
Justin BaileyJune 13, 2019
Putting Grace back in the Doctrines: A Review of “Humble Calvinism”
Title: Humble CalvinismAuthor: J.A. MeddersPublisher: The Good Book CompanyPublishing Date: March 1, 2019Pages: 128 pages (Paperback)ISBN: 978-1784983727 Collin Hansen describes the popular resurgence of Calvinist doctrine in the first decade of the twentieth century in three words: young, restless, and Reformed. “The New Calvinism,” identified at the time with leaders like…
Justin BaileyApril 26, 2019
Beyond Hero Stories
Last November, the 26-year-old missionary named John Allen Chau was killed on North Sentinel Island. Home to a remote and protective tribe, travel to the island is against the law. But Chau felt himself compelled by a higher call, and paid fishermen to sneak him…
Justin BaileyMarch 19, 2019
Advent – which contemplates the great miracle of God becoming a human being – is a challenge to our intellect: “how can these things be?” But it is also a challenge to our imagination, the lens through which we see the world, what the Bible…
Justin BaileyDecember 9, 2018
Belief in a Disenchanted World: A Review of “George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”
About six months ago, I learned of Timothy Larsen’s forthcoming book, George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles. As the latest publication from the Wade Center’s Hansen Lectureship series, the book was described to me as detailing MacDonald’s approach to skepticism and doubt. Since I am…
Justin BaileyNovember 17, 2018
The power and prominence of music is worthy of our attention. Music moves us, evokes our emotion, and brings out our humanity like almost nothing else. Don’t just tell me if you believe in an idea. Does it make you sing? If something makes you…
Justin BaileyAugust 19, 2018
If the story of Scripture is any indication, hope often begins in sorrow and rage, often withers in the wilderness of disappointed expectations. But it also pushes up through the cracks of despair when it has no earthly reason to do so. If hope springs…
Justin BaileyAugust 12, 2018
If you are in transition, or if you woke up this morning and your soul feels restless, or if you are wrestling with the question of where home is to be found, then Moses the man of God has something to say to you today.…
Justin BaileyJuly 22, 2018
Psalm 23 tells us that God’s peace, and the promise of God’s presence is possible. In fact, it shows us that it is possible to walk through the darkest, loneliest and most confusing times if we know who God is: the God who goes before…
Justin BaileyJuly 15, 2018
