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Church, Who Are We Celebrating?
Church, Who Are We Celebrating? I saw a post on X a while back (I wish I had saved it) where the poster lamented for the future of Evangelicalism because he felt that no great leaders were stepping up to replace men like John Piper, R.C. Sproul, and John MacArthur. I thought, “Evangelicalism is in…
Cody John SimpsonIdols & Circumstances: A Devotional through Habakkuk
“What’s going on God?” is what I wish I would ask when life stops making sense to me. To my discredit, more often than not, I get angry and depressed. As we follow Jesus through every valley and sinkhole of life, we have to hold onto the truth that these ugly circumstances have a purpose,…
Rediscovering Confessions
One Sunday, after our church worship service a visitor came up to me to enquire about our church. One of his first questions was whether we were “confessional.” I put that around quotation marks because as I stared back at his eager face I was scouring my brain trying to figure out what that meant….
Give a Little Christmas Grace
What are we celebrating this month? What is all this for? You know, understanding the meaning of Christmas is actually a challenge for most people who will be celebrating it these days. Only isolated outcrops of Christians in our social landscape have kept kindled the true meaning of Christmas. If you ask most people you’ll get…
When is Division Okay?
With the recent mandates in Quebec that churches only allow vaccinated persons access to worship gatherings, the issue of division within the church is rearing its ugly head. I addressed the issue of the mandates themselves and how they relate to God’s commands for unity within the church in the article, A Mandate to Exclude? Are…
A Mandate to Exclude
The church in Quebec finds itself in unprecedented times. For those readers who are unaware, as of December 26, churches have been mandated by the Quebec government to screen visitors of our worship gatherings for proof of Covid-19 vaccination. That means without a “vaccine passport” and photo ID, you are not allowed in. Needless to…
Divine Suffering
This past year, I’ve been trying to get more into cooking. You know, the more stereotypically “manly” kind of cooking; steaks, ribs, grill-master stuff. As part of this journey to be the Simpson family master of all things grilled and fried, I sought to learn the art of cast-iron cooking. Everything at least looks cooler…
Thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias Scandal
It’s been five days now since Christianity Today reported on the final investigation of RZIM into the allegations of sexual abuse against Ravi Zacharias (link here). I encourage everyone to read the CT article, as it does a particularly good job of providing an overview of this terrible affair. From there I encourage everyone to dig…
Cultivating a Servant Heart
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about spiritual disciplines is that they are all some kind of meditative, almost esoteric, type of practice. When this is the image of spiritual disciplines, most people begin to walk the other way. I have found that regular, consistent prayer is hard for many, if not most, people,…
Finding God in Stillness
In my past few posts of this series we’ve explored, pretty robustly, the purpose and inspiration behind the spiritual disciplines. If you’re like me and 99% of people out there, you probably just wanted to hear about how to do certain practices and leave it at that. Thank you for tagging along. Ultimately though, it…
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