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March 2020

March 10, 2020

Heavy Load (You Will Make Us Rise Again)

For a long time, I have dreamed of making music together with my best friend...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

Eight Fragmented Thoughts On #ResurrectionGate

For those of you who weren't following progressive Christian twitter a few days ago, there...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Privilege and Resurrection: A Response to Serene Jones

On this Holy Saturday, the New York Times published an interview with Serene Jones, the...

April 01, 2018

Easter Is For People Who Aren’t Winning

Why does it matter that Jesus was raised from the dead? Perhaps it doesn't if...

April 16, 2017

Can Easter be more than the church’s self-congratulatory triumphalism?

I've never known what to make of Easter. For evangelicals, the big day is Good...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Christian spirituality for a non-Christian audience

I've been offered an amazing opportunity by the Tulane Hillel rabbi Yonah Schiller to talk...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

It’s against my religion to believe the official report

“His disciples came by night and stole his body while we were asleep” (Matthew 28:13)....

September 18, 2016

My seven salvations so far

There is nothing more anxiety-inducing about growing up Southern Baptist than the obsession with having...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

What is the gospel?

In our latest podcast on Crackers & Grape Juice, we respond to the question in...

February 2016

February 06, 2016

Christian salvation and the Beatitudes #4: The pure in heart

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. This beatitude is everything....

April 2015

April 26, 2015

Six ways I will never stop being evangelical

The Christian blogosphere seems to viralize two things: 1) numbered lists (five reasons why this,...

April 06, 2015

I choose to live in a world where resurrection happens

During Lent this year, a Presbyterian minister named John Shuck posted on the Friendly Atheist...

June 2014

June 03, 2014

The sea of wrath and the island of mercy (sermon podcast)

For the past several years, I've been working with a metaphor that I originally got...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Buried in baptism, raised in faith (#sermon #podcast)

This past weekend, I preached on the way that Jesus' cross renews us in two...

May 04, 2014

Rescued from the power of darkness (#sermon #podcast)

At our LifeSign contemporary worship service, our post-Easter sermon series "Resurrected" is a journey through...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Resurrection and the gift of a wounded body

Since today is Easter, I've been trying to think of something inspiring to say. But...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Were there mushrooms in Eden?

There are few things that make me smack my head more than the idea that...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Brian Zahnd on Cruciform Evangelism in Colossians 1:24

I was listening to Brian Zahnd's podcast Tuesday while waiting for the rest of my...

May 21, 2013

I want to sit in the clouds with Zach Sobiech

Sometimes you hear songs that only your eyes know how to talk about. I've spent...

May 09, 2013

The Ascension: Did Jesus leave us to fight the Empire on our own?

It's probably the most poignant scene in the original Star Wars movie. Obi-Wan has engaged...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

Talking atonement with the confirmands

Our youth pastor invited me today to talk about atonement with our confirmation class. As you...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Jesus come back ('cause we've gotten off track)

This is Advent translated into hip-hop for Christians who are able to admit that we...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

Thoughts on the alleged demise of liberal Christianity

I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Ever since the Episcopal convention last week, all the Christians...

July 10, 2012

Jesus vs. zombies in Ephesians 2

This past weekend for my message on Ephesians 2:1-10, I decided on a zombie theme...

July 01, 2012

The song of God’s power (Ephesians 1:15-23) #rethinkchurch

In the second sermon of our church's "Big Picture" series, we looked at the meaning...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Swallowed up by life (2 Corinthians 5:4)

I preached a sermon a couple of weeks ago about a passage from 2 Corinthians...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

Waiting is our Hope — Easter on Holy Saturday

Sermon for Holy Saturday, 4/23/2011 Text: Romans 8:18-28 How many of you know the musical...