Wise as Serpents: Light Comes into the World — and Evil Attacks (Part 3 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men. . . (Matthew 10:16-17a) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things… Continue reading Wise as Serpents: Light Comes into the World — and Evil Attacks (Part 3 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)

Wise as Serpents: Evil Comes to Eden (Part 2 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)

If evil came to Eden, that perfect paradise where everything had been pronounced "very good" by the Lord, why in the world would we not expect it to come among us today in the church? And yet, professing Christians seem to default to a kind of "willful blindness" to that evil, enabling the wicked and… Continue reading Wise as Serpents: Evil Comes to Eden (Part 2 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)