We continue our series “Living as a Christian in Naperville.” (To see the earlier posts, click here for our Introduction to the topic of how living in a location impacts one’s faith in Christ, here for how living in Naperville can help a Christian live for Christ, and here for the reality of 4 idols […]
Category: Writings on Christianity
Today we continue our series “Living as a Christian in Naperville.” You can find the introduction post here, and how living in Naperville can be beneficial for a Christian’s faith here. In some ways it is very EASY to be a Christian in Naperville: no one is physically persecuting me, I have freedom to go […]
I love Naperville. It is a beautiful suburb of Chicago. It is comfortable. It has a lovely downtown with almost every conceivable type of restaurant and at least 3 great coffee shops (Sparrow, Starbucks Reserve, Two Brothers). The city has annual festivals, well-attended parades, amazing schools, great doctors, and is incredibly safe to live in. […]
I am a Christian. I live in Naperville, Illinois.[1] What does this look like? How does the culture of Naperville impact my faith? This is what we’ll consider together in the following blog posts. I’m writing this mostly for my own soul. It helps me to think about topics as I write them out—Augustine once […]
I have the honor and privilege of preaching regularly at Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville. As a church, we preach through books of the Bible on Sunday mornings. Our style is expository preaching, or preaching that finds its message through the message of passages of Scripture. Each week we look at passage in a […]
Starting on Sunday Sept 16, our church (Cross of Christ Fellowship in Naperville) will be hosting a weekly study called “Curious about Christ.” For 7 consecutive Sundays (6:30-8 PM at the Barnes & Noble Cafe in Naperville), we’ll be considering the person and work of Christ, and how Christ helps us make sense of life’s […]
The Materialist’s Dilemma (Guest post by Dan Tsouloufis) Can a collision of atoms produce transcendent self-awareness? Can hard matter produce consciousness? It would seem to defy both reason and common sense to even pose the above two questions. Yet in our current, hyper-secular age of scientism and non-reason, we are often compelled to consider such things. Unfortunately, according to […]
ANGER as a CLUE to Pointing Us to God Could anger be a clue to a deeper reality of this universe? I would argue YES. Here’s why: Why are we morally outraged by the gas chambers of the Nazis? Why are we morally outraged by the hard-working farmer getting ripped off and cheated of his […]
Atheist Anger: Either Irrational or Arrogant Whenever a person gets angry, it is usually because he/she is upset that a moral value has been transgressed or broken. We get angry that our boss treats us unfairly—assuming that is objectively right to treat another person fairly. We get angry when a weak person is taken advantage […]
3 Ways the Gospel Changes Who We Are The truths of the gospel are STAGGERINGLY GOOD. In Titus 2:13 we see that Jesus is our “Great God and Savior.” He came to save us, we who wanted nothing to do with him. This saving came about as he “gave himself for us” (Titus 2:14) on […]
