The goal is not to “get back” to something but to seek renewal for the future, a renewal that might have continuity with the past but will often look strikingly different from it.

Accounts Payable is right there in the description. In an age in which one’s worth is often subconsciously attributed to one’s status—of income, of education, of position, of “social capital”—can we really be surprised that Dave would want to find some way of being known and loved and seen? And if he can’t do that as Dave, is it any surprise that h

widespread revival of the kind of Christianity we know today in America might prove to be a moral tragedy from which we would not recover in a hundred years.”[*]

Now, I can testify that these are not necessarily two different categories, but her larger point remains. The

Whatever the secular worlds around us may say about the relativity of morality and the nonexistence of such categories as “sin” and “judgment,” no one really believes that.

There are no emergency escape clauses from the way of the cross.

To think that pretend Christianity—claiming the goals of Jesus while ditching his ways; a culture embracing Christian values without individual new birth—is somehow closer to Christ than is outright paganism is the opposite of what Jesus himself told us (Matt. 21:31).

“turn the other cheek” is surrender and weakness, then wait until they hear “take up your cross and

If the American church thinks