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It is tempting to use charm to manipulate people into liking me. God gives us freedom, so should we, even to our enemies.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Why Holiness Matters by Tyler Braun is a new book. He discusses millennials and holiness here.
Cate MacDonaldFormation
What prompts us to leave home? In light of eternity, only a sense of vocation and calling and work will prompt us to move.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
When Christians talk about "identity in Christ," what do they mean? Is it a positive theological concept, or a negative one?
Graedon ZorziTheologyEthicsvirtuechristianityFormation
It's time to reconsider the phrase, “It wasn’t me. It was God.” The phrase carries within it an inadequate account of humility.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. There is a moment for explanation, for inquiry and exploration. And there is a moment for wonder, for pausing to take the thing into yourself, to turn […]
Cate MacDonaldFormation
Sitting in class with Dr. Coe was always different. Different from other teachers, different from the same class last week, different from anything we’d done before. And yet there’
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Interesting thoughts from my friend Mark Galli on the role and meaning of Lent, much of which overlap with worries I've articulated elsewhere about our sanctification being reduced
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
I somehow missed Jared Wilson’s reply to my interaction with his book, but wanted to make sure you didn’t. Jared intimates at the end of it that no
Matthew Lee AndersonDevotionalTheology and PracticeFormation
I have, that I can remember, never marked my birthdays here at Mere-O. For most of my online history, I have kept such moments private, as making much of
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
[youtube 1IAhDGYlpqY] Well, here's this thing about Jesus and religion. Or "religion," depending on where you come down on all this. If you've been
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Part one is here, and the second is here. Read them both before soldiering on. I’m grateful for Jared’s book, and even more importantly for his witness. We need the astringent that he offers, and his belligerence (I mean that […]