About Aaron Armstrong

Aaron is the author of Awaiting a Savior: The Gospel, the New Creation, and the End of Poverty, Contend: Defending the Faith in a Fallen World, and Everyday Theology: Understanding the Ideas We Assume are True. He is a writer, serves as an itinerant preacher throughout southern Ontario, Canada, and blogs daily at Blogging Theologically.

Three Reasons Why Reading the Bible May Feel Like a Chore

Posted on February 12, 2015 Posted by Aaron Armstrong

Christian, if studying the Bible isn’t really your thing, can we chat for a minute? While Christianity isn’t dependent upon our academic inclinations, nor our interest in reading in general—to suggest those who are illiterate, have a learning disability or simply aren’t big readers are excluded from the kingdom of God is ridiculous—all Christians should strive to be […]

The Day God Waged War

Posted on December 11, 2013 Posted by Aaron Armstrong

I’ve got a bit of a love-hate relationship with Christmas, or at least a lot of the trappings surrounding it. The struggle to create a “perfect” Christmas, the whole Christmas-karma nonsense… But one of the things I desperately struggle with is our lack of understanding of what Christmas is really all about. Christmas—the incarnation—is a declaration […]

Contending Is the Cost of Discipleship

Posted on November 12, 2013 Posted by Aaron Armstrong

(by Aaron Armstrong) Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 1:3 Each of us, at various stages of life, will be called to say […]