Month: December 2025

As with any Jack Hayford book, Glory on Your House is dense with lessons learned. These lessons are not esoteric principles, but practical applications of how God’s glory can permeate the life of the believer as well as their church and community. The book provides a framework for me to take these principles and apply them to my everyday life and ministry.

Niebuhr, in his book Christ and Culture, describes a problem with a dual demand on Christians from their faith and from the culture they live (2). Niebuhr observes that a Christian loves with agape love,  hope, obedience to Christ, faith, and humility (28). Culture has its own traits that focus on the social (32), human achievements (33), as well as temporal, material, and conserved values (36-37). To answer this problem, Niebuhr provides five answers (40-43). These answers have two polar extremes and three median solutions. This essay will evaluate Niebuhr’s answers to the problem of Christ and culture and evaluate where they may fit in different cultural applications.

  The scenario: Murray went to a very busy Costco. As he unloaded his shopping basket into his car, he knew he was late picking up his daughter from soccer. Murray realized he had a bottle of Italian Seasoning that he had not paid for. Should he go back and pay for it, or go and pick up his daughter?