Obedience to God

Dear Christian: I have spent the better part of a year measuring other people’s walls. Seven denominations, plumb line in hand, laying the Word of…

A Name That You Are Alive — and the Wall They Would Not Build A plumb line measures a wall. But what does it measure…

The Verdict of Scripture and the Churches That Stopped Reporting A ledger is a patient thing. But a ledger requires that someone write in it….

The Receipts and the Redline That Was Never Drawn A plumb line needs a wall. Hang it beside a house with no walls and it…

The Verdict of Scripture and the Ledger They Kept A ledger is a patient thing. It does not argue with the entry. It does not…

A plumb line does not argue. It hangs from a fixed point and it waits. Every wall in the world is free to lean; the…

Luther said his conscience was captive to the words of God. In 2009 this church said its conscience was free to conclude otherwise — and…

They did not abandon Luther. They quoted him — and reversed the one thing he would not move. The Church and the Christian Church •…