Amazing Stories Await

January 3, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

2016 was a hard year. And I’m not afraid to admit that, because I have seen how God works in and through challenging times.

NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN #ELECTION 2016

November 8, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’ve been quiet this election—not because I don’t have thoughts—but partly because there are already so many people lending their voices to the brouhaha. I’ve also been saddened at how this election season has unleashed a repugnant wave of Christians behaving badly. Whatever the outward issue, I believe the underlying one is the emotion of […]

A Christmas Post: Mary’s Message

December 20, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

I love thinking about the Christmas story from Mary’s vantage point. Everyone remembers being a teenager…you’re figuring out your gifts and beginning to envision the future. Imagine teenage Mary and her prospects for the future as a poor, obscure Jew. Suddenly, she is visited by an angel and endowed with a mandate like no other […]

Getting people to the “next level”

September 28, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Read part 1 Is Salvational Transactional? Read part 2 Unpacking the Story No one is born with a fully-developed set of values. We’ve seen—through the story of Nicodemus—that as values develop, so does a depth of faith. We use a value development scale to delineate the 5-stage series an individual moves through as they strengthen […]

Nicodemus : Unpacking the Story

September 21, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

Read part 1 Is Salvational Transactional? I’ve been scrutinizing my epistemology through the lens of Nicodemus and his question of, “what does it mean to be born again?” This is one of the best definitions of born again: When translator Des Oatridge, working in Papua New Guinea, came to the words “born again” in John’s […]

Nicodemus: Is Salvation transactional?

September 14, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

John 3 is a very familiar passage, but recently it got me thinking about salvation through the character Nicodemus. Nicodemus is best known for being the first to brazenly ask Jesus, “What does it mean to be born again?” A question we ought to be asking ourselves anew today. The phrase born again has devolved […]

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