I am not a fan of blog posts like this one and I just want to get that out of the way up front. It just seems a bit self serving for a pastor to ask you to pray for your pastor. But I’ll take the hit for this one because I have been talking to a lot of pastors lately...
This weekend at Riverview, I preached on a passage that calls on Christians to “submit to every human authority because of the Lord…” (1 Peter 2:13). This passage is a hornets’ nest of controversy in the best of times and Covidland kicks the nest with steel-toed...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself diving into music I hadn’t listened to in a long time. This turned into a harebrained scheme: I created a “Quarantined Guilty Pleasures” Spotify playlist. Each day, I added a song and invited people on social media to add...
I’m glad I finally got around to reading Help My Unbelief by Barnabas Piper. It’s a great read for those of us (probably all of us) who wonder why God “reveals Himself to us in a way that sparks questions rather than settles all of them.” My...
I often read books and think “I should review this book,” which really means I just want to tell people something about the book. Of course, taking the time to properly review a book takes away from my reading time and makes me read differently. So this year, I’ve...
