Commentary
Power & Effects of Sin
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Commentary
Sermon: What Makes Us Clean
Jesus teaches that external religious practices and rituals cannot make us right with God because our fundamental problem is a corrupted heart that produces sinful thoughts and actions. Using the anal
Commentary
Sermon: The Rise and Fall of King Saul
King Saul's story from 1 Samuel 8-15 illustrates the critical importance of obeying God's voice, tracing his journey from anointed king to rejected ruler. The narrative demonstrates God's faithfulness
Devotional
Sin Slaughterhouse
Bible in 90 Days – Day 8 – Leviticus 1-14 Today’s readings contains vast detail about the bloody sacrifices required to atone for sin. It is an important reminder of what sin does. Sin is horrific: think of the killing floor at a slaughterhouse. That was the scene at the tabernacle. Our sin causes this. […]
Reflection
A Hard Reality Check This Advent Season
Devastating, unfathomable, bewildering, horrifying. That’s the best my mind can do with today’s events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut with an hour’s reflection. This post is one way I’m trying to process it all. Politicians are posturing. Parents are weeping. The self-righteous are cursing. My friends (and myself) are asking things like: “How […]
Reflection
Gospel Lessons from Cinderella
Today when watching Cinderella for approximately the 347th time, my 3.5 year old daughter asked me about the wicked stepsisters: “Daddy, why do they do bad things?” What an excellent question! I paused for a moment, gathering my thoughts on how to communicate to a three year old the psychological factors of bad parenting, possible […]
Essay
No Thing is Unclean
My attempt at a summary of Romans 13:14-15:13. No thing is unclean (sinful) inherently. A thing out of its proper context (too much, too little, at the wrong time, with the wrong person, etc) according to the context God gives it is. The reason we’d partake in anything outside of it’s God given context is […]