This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
05/12/25
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
05/09/25
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
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12/20/18
A friend recently told me they had never seen the movie A Christmas Story. “What?!” I exclaimed. “Well, you need to fix that this year.”
12/07/18
This blog is a part of our Advent series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ. Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
12/04/18
Do any of you have one of “those” kids? Every family should have at least one. They humble you.
11/27/18
As much as the devil and doubts may assail me, God has revealed Himself to me in His Word and answered these pesky questions.
11/13/18
The Gospel is our freedom from sin. It is Christ in the mirror, Christ for me and for you.
11/08/18
The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.
11/08/18
We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
10/17/18
It is only when individuals are bound together in community that they become fully human.
10/10/18
Gospel questions don’t get a Law answer. Religious questions beg for Law answers.
10/09/18
I have been very busy lately, trying to understand things.
10/09/18
They say girls in our society should have nothing to worry about. They should have the opportunity for education and choices far beyond generations before.
10/04/18
Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.
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