In honor of Reformation Day, I give you a handful of my favorite Martin Luther quotes. Enjoy. [blockquote pull=”” align=”left” attributed_to=”Martin Luther”...
You will never be able to unsee the shocking way Jesus responded to clickbait! Clickbait is annoyingly effective. Increasingly, websites use it because we can’t help but click on a link that promises to shock or titillate us. Who wouldn’t click on a headline that...
We live in an interesting cultural moment. Some topics (and people) are straight up off-limits for criticism and judgement while we are almost expected to criticize others. And yet, many of us remember Jesus’s words, “Do not judge, and you will not be...
As I read Deuteronomy 12:20 to prepare for the message last weekend, I kept thinking about this song from one of my favorite albums of all time Sticks and Stones by 77s. The key lyric: “you picked the right time to fail.” That’s the heart of the...
It was really hard to pick a passage to teach on last weekend at Riv. All I had to do was find something to preach about in what is largely considered one of the most boring books in the Bible: Numbers. But the problem I had kinda shocked me. I had a really hard...
I’ve been reading about the devastation in Puerto Rico all morning and reflecting on Jesus’s brother’s words: “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him? If a...
