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11 mins read|01/02/17The question is not can I lose my salvation, but can salvation lose me? No, it can’t.
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9 mins read|11/23/16It was Jesus who appeared to Hagar, comforted her, and gave her the promise of future blessings. It was Jesus who came to her when it seemed everything and everyone else had let her down.
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8 mins read|11/16/16I don’t care why you left the ministry—moral failure, congregational politics, burnout, whatever—the Christ whom you proclaimed has not left you.
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8 mins read|11/14/16Hear that confession of saving faith? Rahab may have been a prostitute in Jericho, but she was secretly a virgin daughter of Yahweh.
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9 mins read|10/31/16You matter so much to God that he would rather die than lose you. You matter so much to Jesus that no suffering was too much, no deprivation too burdensome, no punishment too severe for him to endure to have you as his own.
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12 mins read|10/11/16Christians are Christians not because of anything that they have done but because of everything Christ has done for them.
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8 mins read|10/07/16Read your life like a Hebrew, from the end to the beginning, and you will see that the last is first. The dead are alive, the cursed are blessed, the humble are exalted.
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11 mins read|10/06/16We who fall within the Protestant camp of Christianity have longstanding issues with ritual. I get that. Ritual is often abused. Idolatrized. It can easily devolve into a hollow act of religious farce.
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11 mins read|09/29/16We need pastors who carry that same concealed weapon in their mouths, who are outfitted with the same word the angels have: the word steeped in divine blood, shed for you. That is all we need, for the word does it all.
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11 mins read|09/27/16You became, for a time, ritually unclean. Not sinful. Not immoral. To be unclean meant you bore in your own body the effects of a creation in bondage to decay.
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11 mins read|09/23/16All our little laws reveal that we are, by nature, trying to justify ourselves before others, and before God, based on what we do and who we are.
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7 mins read|09/22/16Imagine if Zacchaeus posted on Jerusalem's Facebook a selfie with Jesus. The top dog among the tax-gougers with Christ at his dinner table. Oh, the outrage! The puritanical zealots would have been tweeting and blogging about it for months.
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