It is all the rage to talk about how oppressive Christianity is and has always been. It’s even more troubling to see some Christians...

2019 was a good year for reading. I managed to read about 30 books this year, which may be a personal high, but there were several...

There are two tables set before us. Nowhere in the Gospels is the contrast between the banquets—the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of...

The story is commonly called the parable of the prodigal son, but that is too narrowly focused. It might be more aptly called The Tale of...

God found Hagar by a well in the wilderness. She had stopped at a spring for what could have been one last drink. And then an angel of...

Want to study about worship with me? OK, that’s a funny way to say it. But from time to time, people ask when and where I’ll be teaching...

One of the more brilliant things C. S. Lewis does in the Chronicles of Narnia series is to take a famous line from the first book he...

In our world, sin is seen as behaving badly, or breaking some arbitrary code of morality. But the Bible talks about sin in a different...

Durham Cathedral, built in 1093. When I first began, I was as giddy as a schoolboy, albeit a 35-year old schoolboy, back in September of...

The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...

I feel like I read a lot of books this year. But it would be more accurate to say that I read parts of a lot of books this year. Graduate...

We don’t understand each other. And I’m not sure how hard we’re trying. This is not a post about athletes or anthems, flags or protests....

What does it mean to be prophetic? The word is thrown around a lot, but depending on which circles you run in, it means something quite...

Earlier this year, Integrity Music release a 5-day devotional that I had written to accompany a wonderful new instrumental album called...

On January 26th, 2017, I had the honor of presenting a short keynote at ‘Evangelicals for Life’ in Washington, D. C. The event was hosted...

This is a follow-up post to the previous one on the ‘Currency of Christian Leadership’. In that post, I made the case that the Old...

Where do leaders in churches and Christian ministries gain their authority to lead? It is tempting to simply say, ‘From God!’ There is,...

At the start of new year, most of our attention is focused on what lies ahead. It’s really one of the few times we take our eyes of the...

As leaders who care about the people we lead, we tend to vacillate between being empowering of our team and being directive with them....