A Counterintuitive Response to Chick-Fil-A
UPDATE: In this post I argued that Christians, as followers of Jesus, should be first to lay down their arms for the sake of reconciliation. After all, that is what we see Jesus do. It makes me...
View ArticleGospelling the Gospel
The word gospel means, simply, good news. In Christianity, the gospel is Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection which makes it possible for us to be reconciled to God and restored to wholeness. It is...
View ArticleRadically Ordinary
Everyone knows our culture loves celebrities. I have yet to meet the person who doesn’t get this. The phenomenon of Paris Hilton and the Kardashians isn’t lost on anyone. But that doesn’t mean we are...
View ArticleA city on a hill or a neighborhood in the city?
For almost all of 2013 I have been preaching through the Gospel of Luke. That’s how I typically approach sermon series. I pick a book of the Bible, and then we work our way through the entire thing. I...
View ArticleInto the Noise
I’m a strong proponent of Christians engaging culture. I do not believe we are to retreat from culture, isolating ourselves from the “evils” of Hollywood, music, or television. I actually find the idea...
View ArticleStop Using the Bible
The meeting was more tense than I expected. One elder at our church was frustrated that people weren’t putting value in the Bible studies that were being offered through the church. In their mind, if...
View ArticleWhy we need the Bible
Over the last couple of days I have had number of conversations about the Bible. In part, because of my post from a couple of days ago. Some have wondered if I was saying that people don’t need the...
View ArticleWhen you’re suffering wrong
A couple of weeks ago I was giving my son a bath. It was a bubble bath – because he’s three and asks for one every night. Of course, when he gets out of the tub at the end of the bath he is a sudsy...
View ArticleJesus is not ashamed of you
We stood toe-toe, all but yelling at each other. We weren’t yelling, but it was close. My wife actually stepped in and pulled me away from the conversation. We were standing in the center aisle of the...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty and the Forgiving Widow
Last night the internet blew up. Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the show Duck Dynasty, in an interview with GQ magazine made his view of homosexuality clear – it is a sin. Anyone who has watched the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Book: Man Enough
I first thought about writing a book when I was in high school. My parents had just bought our second computer, this one equipped with the newest space-age technology, a CD-rom. In multiple trips I...
View ArticleFear May Cause Us to Deny Jesus
Once again the world finds itself in an uproar. The attacks in Paris have left all of us reeling. But it isn’t just Paris. It’s Beruit, Kenya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. For months the nations of...
View ArticleWhat Wheaton Tells Us About Evangelicalism in America
Wheaton College has begun the process of terminating associate professor Larycia Hawkins. Hawkins was put on administrative leave after donning a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women while stating on...
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