As for me, I may well be rocking my Unseen Power t-shirt down the street. I will not be wearing my Carman Addicted to Jesus t-shirt, as even I have to draw the line somewhere. But as silly as all of this might seem, I'm telling you it's all quite spiritual...

Jesus wanders into their fish and pity party, seemingly an ideal opportunity to bring some of that thunder and lightning and post-resurrection zaniness to His doubting followers. It seemed like an ideal time to morph into Sinai-form like He did on the mount of transfiguration and say “How do you like me NOW, disciples?”

The descent into hell has tremendous implications for how Christians live their lives. The reason that we are so hell bent on not giving up on people no matter what they have done or how many times they have done it is not because Christians are naïve...

Pilate’s inclusion in the creed draws me to repentance from my unwitting compliance in a world that rejects God. He also reminds me of the political consequences of following Jesus...

The suffering of death marks those of us even who have staked our claim on resurrection hope. I had a series of troubling, vivid dreams as of late about departed loved ones...

The creed is admittedly scant when it comes to providing details about the life of Jesus. Which makes it all the more fascinating that in such a sparse account one of the few images chosen is that of the Jesus who suffered...

I look to Mary not for redemption but as an exemplar of what a yielded life looks like, as a woman who physically embodied the kingdom of God by virtue of simple obedience...

To have Jesus conceived by the Holy Spirit without remembering He is born of Mary is to embrace a spirituality that lacks particularity, place, context...

To attempt to understand anything meaningful about the life of Jesus apart from the third person of the Trinity would be…well, inconceivable...

This whole exercise has pushed me further to think about the nature of my own faith, which by no means seems irrational to me, but is decidedly trans-rational...

It might sound strange to admit as a Pastor that it took me many years to have a sense of what it means for Jesus to be at the absolute center of Christian faith the way He is in the creed...

Yet beyond all of this, there are those of us who have caught a glimpse of a Jesus that could not be easily labeled or glibly dismissed...

The greatest threat to the gospel in the first century was this kind of body denying religion, wherein God is comfortably confined to a place called heaven...

What makes it interesting is that their acknowledgment of evil and suffering never overrode their fundamental belief in God as the maker...

I have no idea what Daniel Lanois believes about Jesus. There are few artists making music as deeply spiritual or achingly beautiful as Lanois...

I do think the way I believe in God is fundamentally Pentecostal. That’s a way of saying my belief is more a product of being assaulted by God than convinced of God...

Like so many of the women and men who have said this creed before me, my belief in God is much more fundamental, even more primal, than many of these debates suggest...

Over against the rationalistic terms that came to dominate conversations surrounding Christian faith in the 20th century, the apostle’s creed concedes nothing to the language of defensibility. Here is a brash, audaciously simple claim that there is no reality, no apologetic, no system more fundamental than God...

When I say the apostle’s creed, I am swept again into the continuity of the Christian gospel. I am reminded that what we are doing as a church is neither novel nor new. The creed reminds me of both the smallness and the grandness of our local church...