by Every Square Inch Ministries | Nov 30, 2023 | Bible & Theology, Culture & Society, History, Reflections
Like everything else it seems, American history is being weaponized in our political and cultural wars, with both sides often playing fast and loose with the facts and adopting interpretations intended to score political points rather than to come to a deeper...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Nov 30, 2023 | Bible & Theology, Church Year, Culture & Society, History, Reflections
Every year at Christmas time we hear arguments that our Christmas celebrations are little more than warmed over paganism. We hear that the date was selected to compete with pagan holidays, or worse, to absorb pagan holidays into the church, and that our Christmas...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Nov 30, 2023 | Bible & Theology, Church Year, Culture & Society, Reflections
Hope in the Face of Darkness Back in 2012, a friend of mine who was a pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, asked me to preach at his church. I was preparing to go on a five-week mission trip to Asia, and this would give his congregation a chance to meet me and perhaps to...
by Every Square Inch Ministries | Nov 30, 2023 | Bible & Theology, Culture & Society, Discipleship, Reflections, Worship
Fasting is a spiritual discipline that was practiced by Jesus and early Christians and that today is practiced in many places around the world today where the Gospel is growing most rapidly. Yet in the Western church, it is largely ignored. Our culture, which is built...
