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14 mins read|03/28/19Pelagianism is the ancient heresy that says that if you work hard enough and will something strongly enough, you can prevent sin
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20 mins read|02/11/19The prophet Jonah longed for one thing: to see the Assyrian city of Nineveh utterly destroyed by the wrath of God. His wish eventually came true
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13 mins read|09/13/18Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
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23 mins read|05/17/18There are a few occasions in the Bible where the curtain lifts, and we get to peer into the inner workings of the Divine Court.
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15 mins read|07/18/17One of my favorite things to do in the summer is read out under the shade of my backyard tree. There, I have a reclining chair and small little side table.
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15 mins read|03/01/17One of the common things I see my congregants struggle with is the concept of forgiveness. Contrary to what I had assumed would be the case, I find congregants don’t struggle so much with giving forgiveness as they do living with forgiveness.
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19 mins read|09/14/16It is often the case that when dealing Divine, we find ourselves befuddled. For as relatable and surprisingly vulnerable God is as the man Jesus, he seems, at times, to retain a certain aloofness, a type of distance.
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12 mins read|08/08/16Years ago I picked up a used copy of Thomas Á Kempis’ Imitation of Christ at a second-hand bookstore.
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16 mins read|07/06/16One of the interesting things about Paul’s writings that is not noticed enough is that Paul doesn’t really have an “application” section.
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16 mins read|06/13/16A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.
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13 mins read|06/06/16Stephen Fry, the English actor, author and game show host once disparaged the “grammar Nazis” who felt it necessary to enforce all the rules of language but who had forgotten, or just didn’t care, about the joy of language.
