“Honoring the President”

by Steve Hedrick | Jul 22, 2024 | Presence Weekly

For Christians of either party, the one response of which we should be most cautious of is sinful and dishonoring rhetoric.First Things…Despite the political whiplash many are having, “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”The DEVO...

Presence [Volume 1, Issue 2]

by Steve Hedrick | Nov 3, 2023 | Presence Weekly

A Journal for Servants and Leaders in the Public SquareWelcome to the second issue of Presence!First, a word.For the past year, our President and his wife have been dealing with the life-threatening health concern of a close family member. This has produced long...

The Vice of Slothfulness: Shedding Light on the Sin of Acedia

by Steve Hedrick | Jun 8, 2023 | Presence Weekly

by Nichole RittgersWe live in a noisy world. We allow television to play in the background as we clean the house, we have Alexa queue our favorite songs as we wash the dishes, and the list goes on. There are rarely moments in our day when we experience anything close...

How is God Changing People and Places?

by Steve Hedrick | Jun 8, 2023 | Presence Journal

by Abraham Cho and Gregory R. PerryEarly on a Sunday morning in East Harlem, a young couple and their two daughters wait for the elevator up to the second-floor space where their church meets above the neighborhood laundromat. Their youngest, dressed in all white,...

[From the Archives] Tim Keller on The Implausibility Structure of a Culture

by Steve Hedrick | Jun 8, 2023 | Presence Weekly

From “The Reason For God” video course (Courtesy of Zondervan)by Tim Keller, 20061. Defeater beliefsEvery culture hostile to Christianity holds to a set of ‘common-sense’ consensus beliefs that automatically make Christianity seem implausible...