Dedicating a day once per week for worship, rest, reflection, and renewal is but a tiny foretaste of the final Sabbath rest that will be reinstituted once Christ has returned and sin has been banished.
Our bodies carries a sacramental presence in the world—they are the ways in which we extend grace to people.
The incarnation is God’s great testament to the holiness of the body; we are all designed to be icons of the incarnation.
As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. (C. S. Lewis)
Mark Ongley, author of the new Pure Hearted, answers questions about sexual struggles and his hope for this new resource.
Where God commands obedience, he provides grace to enable us. It simply takes longer for some than for others.
Maintaining purity of heart in a sex-saturated world is a challenge for all believers.
Helping our churches make this transition from Christendom to post-Christendom may be one of the most important pastoral challenges we have faced in decades.
A key building block in our theology of the body is the recognition that our physical bodies are signs to the world as we embody God’s saving purposes and his holy love.
Biblical singleness more closely aligns to the concept of “single-minded focus” or “exclusivity of intent” or the “undivided life.”
A proper theology of the body embraces the sacredness and sanctity of all our embodied existence and sees the eternal significance in each day.
Early church Christians followed the teachings of Jesus. Their living, giving, serving, and loving resulted in the spread of the gospel across the ancient world.
