John March

Category: Theology

  • Christianity 2.0

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    It seems like everyone in the evangelical world is talking about starting over.  Everyone is talking about how corrupt the church has gotten.  Many are urging us to return to the purity of the early church.  Others are saying our theology has been co-opted by a Greek or Roman or Platonic philosophical system, and we…

  • Jesus, the Way, Truth, and Life

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    Have you ever been asked by someone, “Do you believe Jesus is the only way to heaven?”  Or, “what about that person in the remote jungle who has never heard about God, are they going to hell?”  These are awkward questions to answer.  Any time someone is asking you to pass judgment on another persons…

  • A Day With More Time

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    Today is Daylight savings time, that magical day when, unlike the parallel Spring day from hell, we get to add an extra hour to our night’s sleep — our clocks fall back instead of springing forward, and we are given a day with 25 hours instead of 24. Every other night we go to bed…

  • Gang Rape and God’s Wrath

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    This is pretty much the worst story I’ve read in a while.  A 15-year old girl was gang raped outside her school on the night of homecoming.  She was abused for 2.5 hours by multiple people while as many as 10 people stood by watching and yet did nothing.  She was found unconscious under a…

  • Shrewd Manager (Luke 16:1-13)

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    Last night at our Community Gathering for New City Covenant, we talked about money.  One of the passages we talked about was Luke 16:1-13.  In these verses Jesus tells a parable about a shrewd manager in order to explain why we cannot serve two masters, God and money.  You can read the parable here.  It’s weird,…

  • Prodigal God

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    In this book Tim Keller offers his expanded interpretation of the parable most often referred to as the Prodigal Son.  He says that the two sons represent two types of people into which all of humanity divides.  Each of us falls into one of two categories.  The first is represented by the younger brother who…

  • Love Jesus but not the Church?

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    It’s pretty en vogue these days to say you love Jesus but you don’t think too much of the church.  It’s understandable.  When Jesus walked the earth, he did some pretty amazing things.  He also taught with a wisdom that was unique to what anyone had ever heard.  Both in word and in deed, Jesus…

  • Truthfully Broken People

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    It’s amazing how broken our world is.   Since I’ve started planting New City Covenant, I’ve become more aware of both my own brokenness and that of others.  I sit down with anywhere from 2 to 10 people each week and share my story and the vision of our church with them.  I also listen…

  • Honesty

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    At breakfast one morning, a wife looks at her husband as he reads the financial page of the newspaper, just as he has done every morning for the past twenty years.  She longs to yank away the paper and tell him she is just as in love with him today as she was the day…

  • Shame on You!

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    Has anyone ever said that to you?  Has anyone ever seen the way you behaved and said, “Shame on you?”  This phrase implies there is something wrong with you just because you made a mistake or did something wrong.  By saying shame on you, the message you hear is you are a worse person because…