All Content by Mika Edmondson
A Time When Christian Baptism Undermined Racism
As part of his daily prayers, a typical first-century Jewish man began by thanking God for not making him a Gentile, a slave–and finally–for not […]
How the Kingship of Jesus is Good News
When we confess Jesus as the Christ, we confess that he is that promised king, whose reign means eternal life and peace for the people of God and eternal judgment for the enemies of God. This is the good news of the gospel.
“Letters to the Church” by Francis Chan
In his latest release, Letters to the Church, Francis Chan offers an impassioned plea for the church in America to rediscover the biblical priorities of the early church. “We’ve strayed so far from what God calls Church,” he laments. “We know what we’re experiencing is radically different from the Church in Scripture. . . . We […]
Why the Bible Doesn’t Teach Us to Be Colorblind
When the Judaizers infiltrated the churches of Galatia, they brought these attitudes with them. Looking to their Jewish ethnicity, cultural, and ceremonial trappings to guarantee their acceptance with God, they treated Gentile Christians as culturally inferior and pressured them to assimilate in order to really belong among God’s people. At this point, I need to address a common misconception about Galatians 3:28.
One in Christ Jesus
As part of his daily prayers, a typical first-century Jewish man began by thanking God for not making him a Gentile, a slave—and finally—for not making him a woman. In a fallen world, we are socially conditioned by messages about who’s important and who’s not, who’s precious and who’s expend-able, who should be in and […]
