by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 16, 2018 | Missional Church
Tom and Angela had lived in their neighborhood for about twelve years without really getting to know many people. They lived in a cul-de-sac of eleven houses and had limited communication and interaction with the people around them. They admitted that this felt...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 10, 2018 | D.Min, Ministry
This article is a re-post from Austin’s personal blog. October 2018 Just recently I finished my doctoral thesis and officially completed all of my requirements for my D. Min. at Fuller Theological Seminary. This day has been a long time coming, five years, to be...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 2, 2018 | Creation, Sermon Illustrations
You may feel as if you are sitting still right now, but it’s an illusion of miraculous proportions. Planet Earth is spinning around its axis at a speed of 1,000 miles per hour. Every 24 hours, planet Earth pulls off a celestial 360. We’re also hurtling through space...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 25, 2018 | Culture, Entitlement
September 2018 There is perhaps no stronger stereotype of the millennial generation than that of “entitled.” For those of us who were born between 1981-1996, we’ve been labeled this over and over by the media, by our elders, and perhaps, even by our peers. And the...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 7, 2018 | Book Reviews
If you haven’t read You are What You Love: the Spiritual Power of Habit or Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith, I highly recommend you do so. There aren’t books that come along too regularly that cause you to re-think human nature, or worship, but You...