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December 2017

December 21, 2017

Why Christmas Matters: God Is with Us

Immanuel is God's promise to be for and among and with us. God has crossed...

December 14, 2017

God’s Country Wins Christianity Today Award of Merit

We're celebrating here at Doxology Project after yesterday's announcement that my book, God's Country: Faith,...

December 05, 2017

To deal with fear, get humility

Fear's cure starts in humility. It's taking on the attitude that God is good and...

December 02, 2017

The Gospel of God’s Judgment

Advent celebrates the manger that leads to the cross that bursts through to the resurrection...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

On planting garlic on Thanksgiving

Sacrifice is not just a one-off event; it's a way of life. We're called to...

November 07, 2017

Why Getting Revelation Right Matters

The Rapture raises the erroneous expectation that our comfortable Western life will continue unbroken until...

November 01, 2017

Saints below and saints above

On this All Saints Day, let us remember the church in heaven that is joined...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Discovering communion on a frisbee player’s leg

We all too often confuse this deep and steadfast communion originating in Christ with passing...

October 24, 2017

The Fruit of Disappointment

The flip side of disappointment is gratitude. It's receiving life itself as a gift--a little...

October 04, 2017

When the door doesn’t open

Closed doors can shatter our false images of who Jesus is and what Jesus should...

October 03, 2017

The impossibility of preaching

Good preaching requires a willingness to speak God's word, a dose of creativity, and a...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Learning to Think Like Jesus

"Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome

September 14, 2017

4 tips for rural evangelism

Jesus is the animating force behind our hope. What we want to share with others...

September 05, 2017

Ready to bless

Are we ready to bless? It doesn't have to be much. It just has to...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

On coming home

The most precious features in the topography of home are always the people. We’re home...

August 25, 2017

What is Christian hope?

At its core, it seems to me that Christian hope is the assurance that God...

August 20, 2017

What’s your break-the-glass scripture?

I suspect that a lot of us have some break-the-glass resources we keep stashed away...

August 04, 2017

Are you glad for God’s works?

You, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Snatching a Meal From the Word

What if we read the Bible with the sense that God will speak to us...

July 24, 2017

Hungering for one thing

We ate at a big city burrito joint not long ago. It's a good sign...

July 17, 2017

Church in place

We spent the last week wandering around Boston. We lived in the city when we...

July 14, 2017

Faith, fear, and love

Faith feels like the bottom dropping out of life. In a good way. I know,...

July 10, 2017

Standing to hear the gospel

I worshiped with a different congregation yesterday. They're a church on the deep end of...

July 03, 2017

Which way?

A long time ago in a college far, far away, I took a philosophy course....

June 2017

June 30, 2017

On completing my to-do list

I arrived at an amazing place today: I completed my to-do list. (Okay, I still...

June 13, 2017

What is a call to ministry?

A long time ago in the big city, I was a graduate student studying the...

June 08, 2017

Book in hand! – God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church

I'm excited to have in hand the Advance Reader Copy of my book, God's Country: Faith,...

June 07, 2017

Eat our way to joy

Joy strikes out of the blue nothingness. You can't expect it or manufacture it...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Pray the Ascension

With the Ascension, the Incarnation is completed as Jesus bears his humanity into the fullness...

May 23, 2017

The snake’s greatest trick

We often think about the Snake tempting Adam and Eve to do the wrong thing,...