Walk in the Unity Jesus Created

It’s not our job to create unity! In this essay, Marlin Sommers argues we must understand unity as something God already did. Our job is to walk out that unity by bearing with each other, caring for each other, and bringing our full range of…

Salvation as Participating with God

Salvation is not a ticket to heaven, but the life of God planted in human hearts. The Holy Spirit brings us into God’s life and enables us to do His work in the world. Chester Weaver explains this through various paired ideas. “Truth walks on…

Union with Christ or Gospel of Sin Management? 

Without downplaying the barrier of our sin that is overcome in Jesus’ death and resurrection, Kyle Stoltzfus urges us to see the large, rich picture that God has in mind for our living “in…

Forgiveness is not “Putting up with” 

Forgiving doesn’t mean downplaying wrong. True forgiveness is a powerful response to wrong that calls sin what it is, and often involves confronting the wrongdoer. Both forgiveness and forbearance involve releasing resentment and both flow from…

Stepping Into Scripture’s Stories

Paul Lamicela helps us see ourselves in the story of Lot’s family in Sodom and the story of David and…

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Are Anabaptists Pacifists? 

Chester and Reagan discuss pacifism versus non-resistance and the fact that, as Christians, we will undoubtedly have…

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Anabaptism vs Evangelicalism — Ask Anabaptist Perspectives Anything Episode 37

What is evangelicalism? Is Anabaptism another version of evangelicalism? In this partner episode, Chester Weaver shares personal insight and sheds some light on this listener-submitted…

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What in the World is Fundamentalism? — Ask Anabaptist Perspectives Anything Episode 36

Fundamentalism is a hermeneutic, a way of looking at the scriptures, a preoccupation with getting it right and checking all the right…

Redeemed from the Present Evil Age

Galatians is about God’s New Creation, as Paul Lamicela helps us see. This episode probes major themes in Galatians in light of Jesus bringing the newness that redeems us from the present evil…

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Gnostics! Knowing, Bodies, Souls, and Spirits

A commenter on YouTube has repeatedly exhorted us toward gnosticism. Reagan, Kyle, and Marlin respond with a discussion of the conflict between gnosticism and…