by Matt Dirks | Mar 20, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
Over the past few decades, the term “evangelical” has become primarily a political label in America. It’s become a group of people who are defined by what they are against: abortion, LGBTQ rights, immigration, environmentalism, and in the past few years, masks and...
by Matt Dirks | Feb 28, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
I know plenty of Christians who do yoga or tai chi exclusively for the health benefits. They ignore the spirituality that surrounds it, and focus only on the strength, balance, flexibility, and calm it can bring through the isotonic/isometric exercise. But it’s...
by Matt Dirks | Feb 14, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
There are millions of people around the world who have sincerely-held religious beliefs that might, at first glance, seem to be compatible with Christianity. Every religion preaches the “golden rule” of doing to others what we would want done to ourselves. Every...
by Matt Dirks | Feb 7, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
As the great theologian Wesley said in The Princess Bride, “Life is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” We all get hurt. All the time. In big and small ways. Maybe someone said something you didn’t like. Maybe it wasn’t really even directed...
by Matt Dirks | Jan 31, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
There are many places in Scripture where we’re commanded to love God with all our heart/mind/soul/strength. And many Christians try to nail down precise definitions of what each of those things represents. Some even try to debate whether we’re made of two parts (body...
by Matt Dirks | Jan 24, 2024 | Ask Pastor Matt
Many Christians use the idea of open doors and closed doors to evaluate what we should do and where we should go. We assume that if a door is open we should walk through it. And if a door is closed we should give up on it. But it’s a little more complicated than that....
