Is Church Membership a Requirement?

“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.” (ESV)I love the promises found in Isaiah 26:3–4. They are truly comforting and words to hold fast to. In a world marked by anxiety, suffering, and exhaustion, we are invited into what scriptures calls perfect peace. This peace is more than tempo...

Since I was young, I’ve had a fascination with zombies. Hordes of shambling undead filled the toy aisles and phone screens of my childhood. Plants vs. Zombies, The Walking Dead, and even Minecraft were global phenomena heavily featuring these green-skinned ghouls. Zombie fiction exploded in the 2010s, just as I was at that impressionable young age when all things horrible and gross became wonderfu...

On April 17, 1521, when the “fabled monk”[1] was asked to give a defense for the convictions within him, Martin Luther respectfully and famously said:Since then your serene majesties and your lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, plain and unvarnished. . . . I am bound to the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not re...