by chaplainshawn | Jan 21, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
Our View of Ourselves Before God This is Jesus’s longest sermon, a primer on Christian discipleship that describes life in God’s kingdom on earth. It begins by describing our view of ourselves before God. ASSIGNMENT: Read this lesson, Matthew 5:1-7, Exodus...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 21, 2025 | Sermon on the Mount
Please read this lesson before the first meeting. Religion and Resistance The Sermon on the Mount is a discipleship guide to complete surrender and obedience to Jesus as we live his way in the kingdom of God. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 15, 2025 | Theology
Hell, among those who follow Jesus, is understood as a place of future punishment for the wicked deceased. Scripture also uses the term to describe the grave, the realm of the dead, or a location for disembodied spirits. Satan and his angels will not rule or deliver...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 14, 2025 | Just Sayin'
Evangelicalism and Politics. What Happened? Please help me understand what has happened to the GOP and traditional Evangelicalism. I don’t feel at home there anymore. How did it happen? For most of my adult life as a soldier or federal agent, my interest in politics...
by chaplainshawn | Jan 10, 2025 | Theology
Heaven is the hope of all Christians. But all of God’s image-bearers are born with a deep yearning for something beyond what we experience in this life—an inherent desire for the eternal (Ecclesiastes 3:11). In November 2021, Pew Research published the results of a...
