by Trey Ferguson | Sep 27, 2021 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
This pandemic has given me a lot of time to think. I’ve spent a lot of that time contemplating God. How we come to understand God. How we interact with the Bible. How our understanding of God impacts the way we treat and care for each other. How our common...
by Trey Ferguson | Sep 20, 2021 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
I understand why more and more people care less and less about what the church has to say. I understand what it feels like to listen to the same people who claim to have the inside track on righteousness find ways to sidestep so many of the things that ail the...
by Trey Ferguson | Dec 18, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
Allow me to set the scene:A man starts making bold claims about himself. Talking BIG game. Maybe not bragging, per se. But certainly not shy either. “I’m the man. Get like me.” People have the natural reaction to such talk. “Says who?! Who do you think you are?! The...
by Trey Ferguson | Dec 4, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
I had a dream the other night. I’m told that we dream every night, and that it’s really a matter of whether or not we remember those dreams. I usually don’t remember any. But I started praying to remember my dreams…. I can’t help but feel...
by Trey Ferguson | Nov 6, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
You hear it every election season, particularly in a time when each election seems more contentious and divided than the one that came before it. We remind ourselves that Jesus is on the throne to calm our anxieties. We remind ourselves because it sounds good to imply...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 23, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
The Good Samaritan is one of those stories that transcends the Christian tradition in some senses (which is a nice reminder that we don’t actually own these stories). It’s worth revisiting (or visiting for the first time) here. What the story illustrates...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 16, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
We hear the word “reconciliation” tossed around a fair amount these days. I think that’s a good thing. I’m one of those people who believes that the books collected in the Bible lay the foundations for God’s grand plan of cosmic...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 9, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
I confess. There are some things I hold in tension. A lot of them. One of those things that I continue to labor to understand is the idea of unity in the body of Christ, because I think it’s important. There’s no shortage of scriptures emphasizing the need...
by Trey Ferguson | Oct 2, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
You are not reading the Bible from a place of neutrality. AND THAT’S OKAY! In fact, I’d argue that acknowledging that fact is the first step in being kinda good at reading the Bible. Here is an established, undeniable, incontrovertible fact: Christians...
by Trey Ferguson | Sep 25, 2020 | Christianity, Reflections, Theology
Anger is a fairly natural disposition for me. It doesn’t take a lot for me to get there. It comes easily. For the longest time, I was led to believe that anger was a sin. Human anger is a dangerous thing to play with, and can lead to pretty disastrous results....
