catapult magazine

Items tagged salvation

• Beautiful death

  A challenge to enjoy creation and accept what we cannot understand.

• A season of acceptance

  As Christmas approaches, we can prepare to accept God's good gifts by setting aside our own efforts and becoming like little children.

• Second chances

  A boy's first goose hunt yields a memory far more meaningful than taking in the first holiday bird.

• Incarnation and the image of God

  The mystery of the incarnation is not just a topic for philosophers and theologians--it initiated the transformation of our family tree as children of God. Iconography is one attempt to capture the mystery, but what can we discover by going straight to the Word?

• Engaging culture in the land where God has placed us

  What can we learn from Old and New Testament figures about actively engaging culture?

• Late night thoughts on the sovereignty of God

  Or, if the Reformers hadn't been resurrected, would they be spinning in their graves?

• Sam the Cat

  Unexpected love and lessons from a stray.

• "His Body, broken for you"

  A last-minute duty yields lasting revelation.

• To Johanna, on your baptism

  A gift takes the form of knowledge conveyed in a letter.

• Open heart

  On the saving gift of friends and family.

• The pivotal apology

  Can we earn salvation through the act of repentance?

• On calling

  An unexpected crisis is transformed an unexpected encounter.

• Reincarnation

  What happens to us when we die?

• Remembering how

  A recounting of lately stumbled-upon wisdom regarding grace, redemption and forgiveness.

• Acquire the Spirit of peace

  How would such a pursuit our families, our community, and our society at large?

• A peaceable feast

  Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.

• Fallibilism is true!

  Decartes vs. Paul on certainty, deception and human flourishing in the real world.

• Fact vs. truth

  A childhood of gathering evidence gives way to an adulthood of storytelling.

• Fasting to hear

  On Protestant theology and the revival of discipline.

• Holy rest

  Dispelling the myth of a works-based salvation.

• Baptized in humanity

  Realizations among the clash of cultures on a Miami vacation.

• Saving numbers

  Questioning the church’s obsession with quantifiable data.