They Don’t Care What You Know Until They Know You Care
Ever heard that title? This is a common phrase and it sounds so good and right. The world doesn’t care what “facts” you know about God and His gospel UNTIL…
2024 Paris Olympic Ceremony
It is the day after the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and if you’ve spent 15 seconds on social media, you’ve seen the pictures of the blaspheming…
Replacement Theology
This has been in the social media news lately due to the current political landscape with Israel/Gaza war and all the pro-Palestinian protests going on. Why this caught my attention…
Scriptural Allegories
Allegorizing scripture is a dangerous thing as we can use it to make scripture say basically whatever we’d like it to. There are no guardrails once you begin turning biblical…
Dunkin’ Kids
This is not about coffee or donuts and making kids happy with the latest warm, sugar-covered pastry. It is about me thinking through the paedo- vs credo- baptism debate. Paedobaptism…
Penal Substitutionary Atonement
I may be wrong, but to a a lot of people out there, this is a formal theological phrase. They can define what the phrase means. its one of those…
Federal not Fair
“That’s not fair.” How many times have we heard or said this in our lifetime? Especially from children, who instinctively know when someone’s gotten a little more than them and…
The Missing Gospel
”Christ died and was resurrected for the forgiveness of sins” The line above is the core of the gospel, is it not? I’ll go for the punchline: No, not quite.…
Loving the Church
“By this all people will know that you are my disciples…” What is the “this” here in John 13:35? Jesus completes the sentence with “if you have love for one…
Climate Change
We’ve all seen the news stories of various individuals and groups that are driven by an overwhelming fear of climate change that has been preached to them and are driven…