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6 mins read|04/20/18Bring your black eyes and bruised hearts. Bring your criminal records and soiled pasts. Bring your same sex attraction and internet history. Jesus isn't afraid of your sin or your righteousness.
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10 mins read|01/26/18The following is an excerpt from Chad Bird’s new book, Your God Is Too Glorious: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places (Baker Book, 2018).
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8 mins read|08/09/17We get the exact opposite of what we deserve.
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8 mins read|06/15/17The world doesn’t need dads who are more stressed than they already are. It needs fathers who care for their families, not in heroic ways, but in common, everyday ways.
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9 mins read|11/23/16It was Jesus who appeared to Hagar, comforted her, and gave her the promise of future blessings. It was Jesus who came to her when it seemed everything and everyone else had let her down.
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8 mins read|11/16/16I don’t care why you left the ministry—moral failure, congregational politics, burnout, whatever—the Christ whom you proclaimed has not left you.
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8 mins read|10/07/16Read your life like a Hebrew, from the end to the beginning, and you will see that the last is first. The dead are alive, the cursed are blessed, the humble are exalted.
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11 mins read|09/29/16We need pastors who carry that same concealed weapon in their mouths, who are outfitted with the same word the angels have: the word steeped in divine blood, shed for you. That is all we need, for the word does it all.
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13 mins read|08/20/16To forget ourselves is to remember another, that is, to act in such a way that benefits them. That’s the problem: we don’t.
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12 mins read|08/16/16Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
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9 mins read|07/22/16He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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9 mins read|06/30/16Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
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