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August 2025

August 15, 2025

When Trump and MAGA Meet the War Machine

Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet today. I truly hope that a just peace...

March 2025

March 11, 2025

Deconstructing Faith: Rediscovering Jesus and the Kingdom #3

Domesticating Jesus As I noted in my previous two posts (post 1 and post 2), my...

January 2025

January 13, 2025

Wrestling with Church/Embracing Christ: De/reconstruction #2

In my first post in this series, I began with a lunch encounter I recently...

December 2024

December 23, 2024

Can Christianity Today Model the Conversations Churches Need

I recently had a conversation with another pastor-friend. At one point, we moved on to...

November 2024

November 14, 2024

What Would You Do? Gaza, Torture, and the Limits of Patience

What do I think about the elections last week? Well, my first concern has been...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

What if being Pro-Life begins with ourselves?

What if we could sit back and cry “foul” to all the things that we...

July 2024

July 25, 2024

Fantasy Football & the Bible: Drafting To Understand

So, it is that time of year for those who play fantasy football. We will...

June 2024

June 10, 2024

Equating Trump and Jesus? Why I am not comfortable with this

I’m not saying I am perfect; it is just that I don’t make mistakes. We...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

College Campus Protests Unveil the Shadow of Antisemitism

NB: This is a guest post from Determinetruth's Danny Hall It’s complicated When anyone asks...

April 24, 2024

The Dangerous love for Israel: blind devotion? Part 2

When it comes to Israel, Gaza, Russia, and Iran many Christians are decidedly in favor...

March 2024

March 11, 2024

Jesus & Politics: What you need to know & don’t want to hear

This week Determinetruth will begin a series of livestream events over the next 8 months...

March 05, 2024

Carlson, Navalny, Russia, and our ministry of reconciliation

In the past few weeks, we have seen two worlds collide. And I’m not sure...

January 2024

January 15, 2024

When we love we look like Jesus: Business of war #2

In my last post, I began a look at the war on Gaza from the...

September 2023

September 20, 2023

Why I think the American Church is in Bed with the Beast: Beast #2

What if I were to say, “The wealth we (generic plural again) in...

September 18, 2023

4 reasons why I believe that the Western church has largely fallen prey to the Beast: Beast #1

Not sure about you, but I am always curious as to how the letters of...

May 2023

May 15, 2023

Why I believe the question “God, what is your will for my life?” belies the Hedonism of our culture and not the Gospel: The Mission of God: part 2: Worldview #13:

I discussed in my post two weeks ago that the question, “God, what is your...

April 2023

April 05, 2023

Is the Jesus we preach the same Jesus that Paul preached? Easter 2023: Worldviews #11

I would like to make the claim that the Jesus that is presented this weekend...

September 2022

September 26, 2022

Was Queen Elizabeth II a Christian? Why I don’t like the question

Over the last number of posts, I have been discussing what I believe is a...

September 09, 2022

Devotional Guide: 1 Corinthians #4: 1 Cor 9-11

Monday: Read 1 Cor 9:19-27 As we mentioned last week, Paul begins a discussion in...

September 02, 2022

Devotional Guide 1 Corinthians #3: 1 Cor 7-9

Monday: Read 1 Cor 7:1-6 Paul opens 1 Cor 7:1 with the statement, “now concerning...

June 2022

June 03, 2022

Gospel of John/Book of Acts devotional Guide #6/#1: John 20-21; Acts 1-3.

Monday: Read John 20:1-31 John 20-21 serve as the climax of the Gospel. The promises...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

The way we do church: #4 Pastors and the prophetic voice

I began this series by asking, “where are all the prophetic voices?” I will grant...

May 17, 2022

The way we do church #3: A way forward?

“There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation...

May 10, 2022

The way we do church: #2 Fellowship

“They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking...

May 02, 2022

The way we do church: #1 The Sermon

Stanley Hauerwas, in his work, A Community of Character, observes, “We rejoice in the difference...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

Pastor, please realize that the reason they are leaving the church is because of attitudes like this

I recently read a pastor’s blog post in which the author condemned as heretics those...

March 2022

March 16, 2022

How should Western Christians approach the war in Ukraine? A Perspective

I have noted before that we all agree that the media is biased and can’t...

March 08, 2022

Evangelicals and the Bible gone bad: what to do? Bible and Evangelicalism #2

Many have experienced those who thump their Bibles as justification for why they are right...

February 2022

February 11, 2022

Matthew Devotional Guide #3 Matthew 11-15

Monday: Read Matt 11:1-30 John the Baptist’s inquiry, “are you the Expected One?” (2) is...

February 08, 2022

Militarism and Ukraine

We all know and agree that our media is biased and that it is hard...