This weekend I was playing around with Logos Bible Software’s Psalm Explorer function (which is actually a super interesting way to visualize the book) and I was looking in particular at Psalms that have a thanksgiving theme. That’s when I noticed...
Back in August, I preached my first (and maybe only) sermon on politics. As I lay in bed this morning looking over the election results on my phone, my mind raced back to that message. You can watch the entire thing here if you wish but as a reminder, here’s...
One of my absolutely favorite essays from C.S. Lewis is called “The Trouble With ‘X'” from his book God in the Dock. Now, I wouldn’t normally print such a long chunk from a book, but this is so fantastic I want everyone to read it. I go back...
“I just gotta be me.” “I have to be true to myself.” “This is the real me.” More than any other time in history, we hold a seemingly unshakeable conviction that we are the only true judge of ourselves. Here are some of the “truths” we hold to be self-evident: I...
There’s a famous story in the Bible of Jesus interacting with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. The whole story is teed up this way: [Jesus] had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given...
I am convinced that if you look hard enough, you can find a Gospel story woven into every movie. Maybe when I get around to watching Sharknado 4, I’ll prove it. For now, I want to take aim at an easier target: Interstellar. SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen...
