Author: Jeremy Pierre

Helping One Another See Things Biblically

Helping One Another See Things Biblically

Posted by | Mar 22, 2023 | |

It was my job to go meta in the last session of the 2022 BCC Leadership Summit by summarizing what we had accomplished together that week. I summarized our summit as a collective effort to apply a consistent theological vision of human life as we considered a particular case study. We were making judgment calls about how to approach a married couple named Josh and Haley based on our knowledge of God and of people in relation to Him. Yet, in this collective effort, each panelist said something different. They picked up on different cues. They prioritized urgencies differently. Even the biblical themes they appealed to varied. All of it seemed grounded in the same gospel, in the same dependence on the unseen movement of God in this couple’s life. But each panelist saw the situation differently. How do we account for this? Continue Reading →

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Learning to Love a Wife Who Suffers from Past Abuse

Learning to Love a Wife Who Suffers from Past Abuse

Posted by | Oct 21, 2022 | |

A husband’s capacity to love his wife grows only as it is rooted in his knowledge of her. The apostle Peter makes this clear in his instruction to husbands: “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered” (1 Pet. 3:7). In this post, I will apply Peter’s general command to husbands to live with their wives “according to knowledge” (a more literal rendering) to the specific situation of a husband seeking to love a wife who has suffered past abuse. Continue Reading →

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What BCC Means to Me

What BCC Means to Me

Posted by | Nov 25, 2021 | |

A person can get pretty weird when left alone for too long. He has ideas that make sense in his own mind that wouldn’t make sense to anyone else. The problem is, he doesn’t know what makes sense or doesn’t unless he floats those ideas out to public view. Nothing cuts through nonsensical thoughts quite like the “you’re crazy” look on a friend’s face when you tell her you’re thinking about going into urban ostrich farming to supplement your income. The BCC keeps me from being weird. Continue Reading →

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