To Know God is to Love Him
- March 17, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
[This is Part 3 of a larger piece entitled, “An Inquiry into The Incompatibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a Religious, Performance-Based...
The Gospel Changes Your Mind
- March 10, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
[This is Part 2 of a larger piece entitled, “An Inquiry into The Incompatibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a Religious, Performance-Based...
Can You Earn the Gospel of Jesus?
- March 03, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
[This is Part 1 of a larger piece entitled, “An Inquiry into The Incompatibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a Religious, Performance-Based...
Purification and the Two Deaths
- January 21, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
“And [do] not fear death, it is the only way to be cleansed.” (“Original Sin,” The Wild God of the World, Robinson Jeffers)
“In the...
Have You Lost Touch with God?
- January 14, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
You and I hear it all the time. “I don’t feel close to God right now.”
It’s clichéd, sure, but, more importantly, I desire...
Finite and Infinite Games: A Response
- January 07, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
“Rules are not valid because the Senate passed them, or because heroes once played by them, or because God pronounced them through Moses or...
It is Not Just for Our Joy
- January 01, 2019
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
When I look at the Gospel, I often see the aspects that reflect my own gain. Right relationship with God. Eternal life. Character. But...
The King Has Come
- December 25, 2018
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
This is part one of a two-part series on Titus 2:11-14.
Many in the church discuss the grace of God that leads to the door...
Acceptance and Belonging: An Examination
- December 16, 2018
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
I often hear questions that ask why an individual acts in accordance with the culture of a certain group or queries into an individual’s...
Camus, Genuineness, and the Unpragmatic Pragmatism of Evangelism
- December 09, 2018
- by
- Jared Odenbeck
Evangelism often centers around pragmatic approaches – what works and what does not work. Pragmatism bears programmed material, automatically-generated responses, and destroys the authentic,...