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April 2020

April 06, 2020

Whip Of Cords (A Poem About Divine Rage)

When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

The Failure of Zion

The recent massacre of dozens of Gaza protesters by Israeli snipers is a tremendous tragedy,...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

Lee Wyatt’s Gospel for People Who Aren’t Guilt-Ridden

My Facebook friend Lee Wyatt has written a book called The Incredible Shrinking Gospel about the...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

Toxic authority, police brutality, and white evangelical Christianity

I have learned about three police killings of black people in the past 24 hours....

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Detoxify Christian lingo #1: Salvation

I've decided to write a series of blog posts focusing on some of the Christian...

April 2016

April 15, 2016

The 12 scriptures that inspired my book

When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn't read the...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Can American Christianity be detoxified? (A summary of my first book)

Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

The woman with the orthopedic shoes at my Monday mass

For two and a half years, I spent my Mondays at the Basilica of the...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

What if churches were temples instead of programs?

The latest buzz on the Christian internet is the Pew research report about Christianity's decline in...

December 2014

December 05, 2014

How Jesus saves through Michael Brown and Eric Garner

One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus' cross...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Is the Old Testament a debate between priests and prophets?

I've been reading two books recently that have me really wondering what to do with...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

How I read the Bible differently than John MacArthur

A friend pointed me to Tim Challies' recent interview with John MacArthur in which MacArthur...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

What does the blood of Jesus actually do?

A basic principle of Christianity is that Jesus died on the cross for our sins....

July 2012

July 19, 2012

How can blood tear down a wall? Sacrifice in Ephesians 2:11-22

This past weekend, I preached on Ephesians 2:11-22. It’s one of my favorite passages because...

December 2011

December 15, 2011

Occupy the manger #6: God chooses homelessness

Now when [King David] was settled in his house, and the LORD had given him...