Featured Presence Weekly 7/22/2024 - “Honoring the President” For Christians of either party, the one response of which we should be most cautious of is sinful and dishonoring rhetoric.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/15/2024 Much depends on our disposition. Lately, it seems like we are an angry nation. We are angry about certain policies. We are angry about the people who support certain policies. We are angry that people do not agree with us.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/08/2024 Whatever the case, when conflict exists, our joy is diminished—and not only our joy but also the joy of those around us. We were created by God to live in community, and yet, because of the fall, community life brings conflict.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/01/2024 While participating in Christ's mission of making all things new applies to all Christians, those working in Washington and the greater public square are uniquely positioned by God to seek the welfare of their neighbor.
PastorsBriefing Pastor's Briefing: The Presidential Debate Christians are called to listen differently. We are called to evaluate the policy positions proposed by each candidate through the Biblical criteria of Christ’s eschatological initiative articulated in his statement, “Behold, I am Making All Things New.”
Featured Presence Weekly 6/24/2024 The costs of pursuing the measures of success in the public square are high and often come with long-term interest payments. But there is another option - purchasing what you need from Christ.
Podcasts Featured "Claiming the Courageous Middle," with Dr. Shirley Mullen Greetings and welcome to another episode of the Faithful Presence Podcast! We are especially pleased to have our newest subscribers from last week's EPC General Assembly in Memphis!
Presence Weekly 6/17/2024 That is Christ’s assessment of the church. Imagine if this was the kind of information Communications Directors offered - accurate assessments of their employer.
Members only Podcasts Featured The Faithful Presence Podcast: Culture, Vocation, and Bioethics with Dr. Luke Bobo
PastorsBriefing Featured Pastor's Briefing The implications of underreporting maltreatment deaths of children include: less funding for detection training and intervention services, decreased public awareness of a serious problem, and continued maltreatment and deaths of thousands of children each year.
Presence Weekly 6/10/2024 Increasingly, The United States no longer holds Christian ideals as foundational or even beneficial. Christianity is no longer in a place of cultural ‘power.’ That can make many of us feel weak, and therefore insecure.
Members only Premium Podcasts Featured The Faithful Presence Podcast: "Questioning Faith," with Dr. Randy Newman
Featured Presence Weekly 6/03/2024 Today, we live in an age where we look to science and politicians to answer and remove so much of our uncertainty because removing uncertainty increases our feeling of security.
Featured Presence Weekly 5/28/2024 Slavery, in other words, is a clear and present danger for many in Washington and the wider public square.
Featured Presence Weekly 5/20/2024 In some ways, Mark’s story of Jesus, like that of Kipling’s Dravot, ends with the death of the man who would be king. But, the humiliation of their death is the only thing the two stories have in common.
Featured Presence Weekly 5/13/2024 We need to realize that even our best prophets are broken. The scary thing is that, despite the multiplicity of prophets speaking into our lives, many of us are serving as someone else’s prophets right now. What are your words communicating to them?
Featured Presence Weekly 5/06/2024 Our emotional response, relational demeanor, and perhaps even vocational motivation may come from treatment at work as we see someone who was just hired offered more money than we are receiving despite our greater tenure.
Featured Presence Weekly 4/29/2024 As Christians, serving and leading in Washington, our renewed ethics create a recalibrating dissonance between what is seen as progress and what leads to true flourishing.
Featured Presence Weekly 4/22/2024 We are in search of comfort and, even as Christians, constantly forgetting where to find it. Further, our pursuit of comfort is often based on the things that we can control or acquire. Both present problems.
Presence Weekly 4/15/2024 God calls us to do exactly what the people had to do upon returning from the exile, to take a moment, stand on the vista, and then walk among the ruins and see what needed restoration. We cannot walk around our lives or our city with our eyes closed to the devastation and what is lacking.
Presence Weekly 4/08/2024 Misreading this verse as a word to individuals sets us up for asking, “What about when MY life is a disaster?”
Presence Weekly 4/01/2024 To rephrase Milton Friedman, "The social responsibility of a Christian is to seek the welfare of the city."
Presence Weekly 3/25/2024 In living the only life ever lived where saying I am sorry was unnecessary, Jesus took all of our “I am sorry”s, and even the ones we should have said but didn’t, and declared, “You are forgiven!”
Presence Weekly 3/18/2024 The DEVO - The Mission of Whole-life Discipleship The Greatest Commandment 6 "Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Featured Presence Weekly 3/11/2024 [The DEVO ] The “Pink Spoon” Mission 9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen
