A Third Corinthian Mantra I Left on the Cutting Room Floor
A follow-up exploring a possible third Corinthian slogan in 1 Corinthians 6:18 and why it didn't make it into the sermon.
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Leviticus: An Overview
Examining Leviticus as the third book of the Pentateuch, exploring its authorship, setting, and message about holiness and covenant relationship.
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Genesis: An Overview
An overview of Genesis examining authorship, dating, structure, and theological significance as the prologue to Scripture.
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The Book of Haggai in 4 Sermons
An exegetical study of Haggai's four prophecies, examining their historical context, theological themes, contemporary applications, and sample sermon outlines.
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Turn off TBN.
Unfortunately, this post is going to be controversial. That saddens me. Last year, a study found that most American Christians actually hold heretical (contrary to true doctrine) beliefs. TBN is part of the problem, in my opinion. This past Sunday, in my sermon at Stonebrook, I went on a bit of a tangent and exhorted our […]
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How Christians Are Supposed to Feel About Syrian Refugees
This one is actually pretty simple. Difficult to swallow, but simple. If a head of state asks “Christian, how do you feel about housing Syrian refugees?”, our answer ought to be “I will gladly lay down my life for theirs!” If a head of state says “I compel you to house a refugee!”, we should […]
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A Theology of Worship Gatherings
Last weekend I gave two seminars at our church associations national conference. I mentioned the first one yesterday, which lays out a biblical view of work and vocation. The second one, posted here, was about our church’s philosophy and theology of worship gatherings. If you are interested in hearing these concepts expanded, we are hosting […]
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Malcom Gladwell on David and Goliath
Malcom Gladwell, author of multiple best-selling books on the nature of success, marketing, and culture, released a new sure-thing bestseller that reframes the story of David and Goliath from the typical “Sunday school†understanding. He gave a TED talk explaining his premise (16 min video) He also spoke recently at the Catalyst Conference on the […]
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How The Gospel Affects Our Work
The last several weeks at Stonebrook Church, we have been going through a series called “Work and Worship: Connecting Sunday to Monday”. I kicked off this series with an overview of the whole concept. The sermon was called “How The Gospel Affects Our Work”. You can read the manuscript and download or stream the audio […]
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Children, Jesus, Superheroes, Depravity, and The Gospel
My reformissionary brother Steve set a small corner of the Internet on fire the other day with this tweet: Teach your children they are broken. Deeply broken. — Steve McCoy (@stevekmccoy) July 1, 2013 This set off a chain of tweets, Facebook messages, and blog posts, from alleged Christians who called him abusive or worse. […]
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According to Slate, you won’t finish reading this.
Slate posted an article (which I didn’t finish reading) about how few people finish reading an article online before “bouncing” (leaving without reading anything) or heading off to comment before they are finished. They are making three assumptions I’d like to call out: * They assume their articles are worth finishing * They assume that […]
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The Jonathan Edwards Diet – My Biblical Alternative to the Daniel Diet
…Just for fun… Over Christmas break I became aware of “The Daniel Diet” which purports to be “God’s prescription for your health”* Rick Warren is even endorsing this diet all over national media. The diet is “based on” Daniel 1. That is, it loosely cherry picks a few rough concepts from an approximation of a […]
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Political Commentary Part 2: Why Deciding Who To Vote For Is Tricky
(Updated: I am a terrible writer without a proofreader. Also, the reaction has been as expected. :() I will not vote for Barack Obama. My rationale is simple: he holds a vastly different ideology on what government should be than I do. VASTLY different. So that part is easy. I don’t need to take time […]