Sep 06
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On Tremendous Trifles | G. K. Chesterton

On Tremendous Trifles ©1909 Hesperus © 2009 97 pages This book shares a lot in common with the Seinfeld—they’re both essentially works about nothing (at least nothing we’d consider worth considering). Tremendous Trifles is a collection of short essays on the things most of us wouldn’t pause to think twice about. In Chesterton’s able hands, [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley
Sep 03
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There is No Secular and Sacred | Eugene H. Peterson

Here’s the fifth of six posts from Peterson’s Practice Resurrection on the sacred/secular divide: If we once thought that the world around us was divided into secular and sacred and that it is the Christian’s assignment to specialize in the sacred but just put up with the secular, we can think that no longer: “God [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley
Sep 01
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Back to Basics (A Series of Sermons)

It’s been at interesting summer at Wellington Street Pentecostal Church. We’ve spent our Sundays going back to the basics of what the Christian life is all about. Now that the series has ended, I thought I’d collect all the messages in one post. You can find individual write-ups along with the resources I used in [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley