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If you grew up in church like I did, “prayer” meant one thing: close your eyes, bow your head, fold your hands, say some words. Ancient Hebrews would’ve stared at us like we just tried to microwave a ribeye. In Hebrew thought, prayer isn’t a single activity. It’s the entire spectrum of how a broken, hopeful,
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Most Christians imagine the early church as this pure Hebrew bubble — apostles quoting scrolls, rabbis debating Torah, fishermen preaching the kingdom in synagogues. And sure, that’s part of the story. But the moment the Gospel stepped outside Jerusalem, it walked right into a world soaked in Greek philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epictetus, Cleanthes —
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Early Christian life wasn’t Sunday-morning spiritual TED Talks and mid-week potlucks — it was a full-body, full-risk, covenant-shaped way of living. Let’s paint the picture the way a first-century believer would’ve actually lived it. 1. Daily Life: Faith, Work, Sweat, and Shared Bread Think: a small, tightly knit spiritual family — not a religious side-hustle.
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A Wake-Up Call to Bible Readers Most Christians love their Bible. They quote it, highlight it, underline it, and post verses with sunsets behind them on Instagram. But if we’re honest, most of us read it like it was written directly to us, in English, in the 21st century, and in our denomination’s dialect. We
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I disagree with him on plenty, but Dan McClellan wasn’t wrong about this one: there really is no such thing as “the Bible.” There are editions. Traditions. Variations. Families. But no single, pristine, universal copy everything descends from—no more than there is the dictionary or the laptop. In the ancient world, it was even more fluid. Scripture lived as oral
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A Quick Tour Through Theological Anthropology Most people assume they know what a human is because, well… they are one. But Scripture, the early Church, and even ancient Judaism paint a far deeper, stranger, and more beautiful picture than “a soul stuck inside a body until heaven.” If you grew up in modern Christianity, that
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This past Sunday in church, I heard it again: “Lay it all at Jesus’ feet because His yoke is easy and His burden is light.” The room softened. Heads bowed. People settled into that familiar emotional glow—the kind of moment that feels warm and safe. And I just stood there thinking: “Do we even know what
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Most people read Paul like he was speaking with a gentle hand on the shoulder. But if you slow down and listen in the language he actually wrote, you find something far more direct. His tone is urgent, sharp, sometimes even blistering with frustration and love woven so tightly together they’re almost indistinguishable. Yet in
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When we read early Christian writings, one theme rises again and again: mercy is not an optional virtue.It is a defining characteristic of those who walk in the way of Christ. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Didache, one of the earliest Christian teaching manuals, written likely in the late first or early second century. It
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There are moments when the mind feels overfull—when theology becomes noise instead of nourishment, when calling feels heavy instead of purposeful. On those days, clarity rarely comes by sitting still. It has to be ridden out. Yesterday, I took the motorcycle and followed the road until the noise in my head was replaced by wind, engine,
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