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10 mins read|09/20/18Jesus cuts right to the chase when it comes to the evil one. He calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies,”
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11 mins read|08/19/18Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
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4 mins read|08/17/18Allegations (and in some cases, admissions) of adultery, addiction, and various forms of abuse have rocked worlds, shattered lives, broken hearts, ended marriages, and split churches. Each case is distinct, but all of them are tragic, scandalous, and destructive in one way, shape, or form.
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10 mins read|07/08/18When we imagine we’re living an evil-shunning, virtue-practicing, morally superior Christian life, the problem is not that our halos are too small, but that our heads are too big.
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5 mins read|03/31/18Come to the feast where evil and good, wise and foolish, shameful and shaming are welcomed as citizens of the kingdom.
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12 mins read|12/04/17In an age when the phrase “new and improved” applies to everything from phones to marriages, when we as a nation mimic juveniles, lustily pursuing the next new thing, the worst decision a church can make is to cater to this weakness.
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9 mins read|11/03/17The following excerpt comes from Chapter 7, “When Love Repents Us,” in Chad Bird’s new book, Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul.
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11 mins read|09/14/17There’s something very attractive about both the cross-ladder and the cross-crutches. In fact, there’s something about both of them that the woodworker within us finds eminently more appealing than the simple cross of Jesus.
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10 mins read|05/18/17The church’s worship should boldly and explicitly do two things: confess the incarnation and practice for the resurrection.
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15 mins read|04/07/17If he was not flesh, who was hung on the cross? And if he was not God, who shook the earth from its foundations?
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9 mins read|03/13/17In other words, they had too much religion and not enough Yahweh. Or, to put it in New Testament terms, they worked so hard at being religious that they put Jesus out of work.
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6 mins read|02/24/17On a recurring basis, Christians spot news headlines that signal yet one more moral collapse in society, the growing paganization of the cultures in which we live, the spread of antipathy toward the faith.
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