Note: The below is a manuscript from a recent small group teaching in my local church. I have preserved the personal and contextual references for the benefit of my small group members who will be reading. Thanks! Would you believe me if I told you that there...
When we think of the name “Jesus” any number of images immediately come to mind. We think of Jesus as the One who died for us. We think of him as the Lord of all and Savior-King. We think of him as the baby, lying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes. But what...
John chapter 1 introduces us to the Person of Jesus…as the Second Person of the Trinity: The Word. In Greek, the word is logos, meaning “word” or “message.” When we endeavor to dive deeper into the text, we find some amazing things, including: How the trinity solves...
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Cor. 5:17) The Apostle Paul had a robust theology of Christ’s union with the believer. This is something, argues Pastor Rankin Wilbourne in his...
We all have different backgrounds… Some of you reading have been followers of Christ for a very long time, others a fairly new in their walk… Me, I have been a follower of Jesus for over 25 years (though I am only 30 years old). The fact is this: Navigating life’s...
So I was born in 1989… Which means I grew up in the 90’s. The 90’s were…interesting…for a variety of reasons…most of those utterly irrelevant to today’s topic. One of the concepts embraced by the church (but especially youth) writ large during that period was this...
To the extent possible, I want you to place yourself in the shoes of the ancient Hebrew writer. You have no “modern” scientific knowledge. You don’t know that stars are balls of gas. You don’t know how big the world really is, etc. (That is NOT to say they were...
Last week my family took an impromptu vacation to Kentucky to see the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. We went about three years ago, and now that the kids are a bit older, we thought it might be a bit more fun and even a bit educational. We were right! They...
In response to my blog yesterday, a reader and friend responded with some thoughts of his own. One struck my attention…it seems obvious, but I had never really thought about it before. The observation is that truth always functions as a polemic against what is false....
As I have expanded my horizons a bit and start learning from teachers who don’t always fit within my theological “comfort zone,” I have found an…interesting…phenomena that seems to be a result of bad thinking. I love the theology of the Hebrew Bible. More and more, I...
