John March

Category: Christian Living

  • Addiction as Idolatry

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    When I was in Thailand, I saw idols.  They were outside bakeries and 7-11s.  They would be sitting on shelves behind the cash register at restaurants.  Cab drivers glued them to their dashboards and placed pieces of their lunch in front of them.  I even saw them outside of brothels when a group of us…

  • Stress and Spiritual Rhythms

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    There’s a scale in our bathroom.  Every time I go in there to take a shower or do my business, I look at it and think, “I wonder what number would come back up at me if I were to stand on that thing.”  Over the last year, it has brought nothing but depressing results.…

  • Sin

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    Gary Anderson says sin has a history.  He’s not talking about the history of our personal sin — why we did it or what it’s enduring effects were.  He’s talking about the history of the way we talk about sin.  He says this is evident by the change of metaphors that are used to describe/define…

  • Are Chinese Mothers Superior?

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    An article asserting the superiority of Chinese mothers in comparison to their western counterparts has been making the rounds recently.  I’ve had it emailed to me and I’ve seen friends posting it to their facebook walls.  You can read the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” online. The article is written by a Chinese mother…

  • Still Learning To Be Still

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    “I would rather do the dishes, clean the house or any other chore than give our kids a bath.”  That was me just a few months ago explaining why I wanted Mary to bathe our kids.  I wasn’t lamenting bath time because I disliked the actual bathing of our kids.  It wasn’t the crying and…

  • God Save Me!

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    Every year we celebrate Advent.  We celebrate the coming of Christ to save the world.  The only problem is he didn’t save the world and he doesn’t save me in the way I’d hoped.  He doesn’t fix my problems.  He doesn’t remove my pain.  He doesn’t make life easier so I can live it the…

  • Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

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    We’ve just started our series on identity and last week I preached on how what we believe shapes our identity.  In preparation, I did some research on what Americans believe.  It turns out someone has tried to categorize and synthesize a framework of belief commonly held by youth and young adults in America. After doing…

  • Are You Comfortable With Your Self?

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    We are beginning a new series at New City this Sunday.  I’m excited for it.  It’s about identity, value and worth.  We will look at three central areas of our identity with the goal of answering the question, “Who Are You?” In preparing for this week’s sermon, I came across this powerful Merton quote on…

  • When Reason is Treason

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    Last week, late night (fake) news hosts, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced their upcoming rallies to be held on 10.30.10.  Stewart announced his rally first.  The Rally to Restore Sanity is for people who think all this passionate dialogue about politics has gotten a bit too crazy.  Colbert countered with his March to Keep…

  • A Seminary Student is a Sinner, Gasp!

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    I just came across an article about a male Gordon-Conwell student (the seminary I attended) who allegedly broke into a female student’s dorm room and setup a video camera with the intent of filming her.  You can read about it on the Boston Herald or the Salem News sites.  I feel badly for this young woman.…