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18 mins read|02/14/23Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.
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20 mins read|01/27/23I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
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6 mins read|03/29/22The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.
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17 mins read|12/24/21The best we would have to look forward to, without Jesus, is a society dedicated to addressing problems and working through them.
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12 mins read|03/09/21There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
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22 mins read|12/29/20To the extent that God is exclusive by offering salvation only through Christ we can say he is more gracious than other systems because he takes on our guilt upon himself while gifting us his righteousness.
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11 mins read|11/18/20God is coloring over your sin and making you fragrant; he is making you righteous in his sight. The old is gone, forever covered over by this new work.
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7 mins read|03/10/20What I have come to see is that while anyone can make a conscious decision to walk away from God or deny him, a person can’t accidentally lose his or her salvation.
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14 mins read|10/16/19If the gospel is promise that means it is essentially relational. It stands that the nature of any promise is that it's only as good as the one who issues it.
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15 mins read|01/24/17Last year, a friend I follow tweeted, “Calling yourself a sinner is spitting on all the work that Jesus did to make you a saint.”
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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.
