What does it take to draw near to God? It takes a perfect priest, a finished work, and a broken body to open the way. In short, it takes everything, which is exactly what Christ has given for you.
08/26/26
Christianity need not retreat from investigation. Its central claim is that the Word became flesh, entered history, was crucified, and on the third day rose from the dead. That is not an embarrassment to be overcome. It is the claim we have been given to declare and defend.
08/24/26
In the end, your story isn’t an epic of personal glory. You aren’t the hero. Your Savior Jesus is.
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06/24/16
The dying words of Jesus were not, “Make it worth it,” but “It is finished.”
06/16/16
We all began by hearing the truth, and then speaking the truth and believing the truth. That truth came to us on the lips of another.
06/14/16
No, when the Lord is ready for battle, of all creatures, he commissions Mary’s little lamb.
06/14/16
Like any language, the liturgy has syntax—a structure that provides order and intelligibly communicates meaning through all that is said.
06/13/16
A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.
06/10/16
I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.
06/06/16
Stephen 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.
06/06/16
Take away the water, words, bread and wine. Can you be a Christian without water, words, bread and wine?
06/05/16
We're of little faith. Or rather, we have big faith, but it’s in something else. Our faith is in our ability to control situations, manipulate them to our advantage.
05/28/16
I'm in the middle of a series on Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
05/24/16
At our churches must remain focused on the deep kick, the real deal, the thing itself. I’m not the first on this site to remind us that this is Christ himself.
05/19/16
He has wandered away into the darkness of his doubting, got lost in his grief, confused by the pains he’s suffered. It happens. Shepherds sometimes become lost sheep as well.
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