I retired this past year after almost forty years of vocational ministry. Most of it was spent as a pastor but some of it was in a para-church organization. My joke has been that I have been a professional Christian for almost forty years, that I have been paid to be good, but on my […]
For the past two weeks I have been exploring the question – who is Jesus? I tried to convince you that Jesus is both fully divine and fully human. That is a mystery and defies all human logic! Now I want to turn our attention to the third person of the Trinity – the Holy […]
Last week I began the very interesting conversation about who Jesus is. I looked at the divinity of Jesus and concluded that He is God. I want to flip the question over and look at the other side – is Jesus human. I want to look at His humanity. As Evangelicals we have done a […]
I started this blog by saying that anyone who has ever spoken about or offered an opinion about God and who He is, is by definition a theologian. The word theology literally means “God talk”. We looked at various attributes of God – His omnipotence, His omniscience and ended by discussing the doctrine of the […]
As you can tell from my family name, Bachiu, I was not born a Mennonite. I became one later in life, at least in part because of the Anabaptist position on pacifism. I listened to sermons and read articles that supported the position. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said “Blessed are the peacemakers, […]
With this post I want to tackle one of the most difficult doctrines of the Christian faith – the Trinity. First, it seems so illogical. I mean, how can God be one and yet three at the same time? It defies all logic and reason. Something can not be distinctly and vividly red while at […]
There are attributes of God that, when they are paired are somewhat difficult to reconcile. The two that stand out most for me are mercy and justice. If God is truly just, then no one would ever make it to heaven. Romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory […]
An attribute of God that isn’t much talked about and that is often rather neglected is His patience. God is patient. Listen to how it is described in Nehemiah 9:17 (NIV) “They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader […]
Twice in his first letter, the apostle John makes this very simple yet profound statement – God is love. You will notice that John didn’t say that God is loving, which He is, rather he said that God is love. Love is the very essence of who God is. Earlier I said that since God […]
This Sunday, June 5, the church celebrates its birthday. The ecclesiastical calendar marks it as the day of Pentecost. It was the day when the church was launched and 3,000 people were ushered into the kingdom as God poured out His Holy Spirit on a group of 120 people who had gathered in an upper […]