Bible 101
Want to learn more about the Bible? about God? about Jesus? Dig into these resources for the basics.
All Scripture is … useful, really?
“All Scripture is … useful” (2 Timothy 3:16). That’s an audacious claim. Many individual Bible passages are encouraging and inspiring and seem very useful….
Demolish the lies you believe
Back in 2013, I saw the stronghold of Corinth, the ancient fortress perched just above the Greek city where Paul planted a Christian church….
A Savior for smart people
I have always loved the intellectual side of the Christian faith. Far from “blind faith,” the Bible is filled with details that should make…
Think about the gospel
When I was studying to become a pastor, my professors would often remind me, “Preach the gospel every time.” Why were they so passionate…
A matter of faith
“Why, Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” (Psalm 10:1). I am thankful that the Bible…
When the Bible doesn’t make sense
Have you read the Bible and said, “Yeah, I don’t get it”? That can happen. Often it’s because our sinful hearts don’t accept the…
Eyewitnesses of Jesus
Do you remember back in the 90s when high school girls’ bangs poofed off the front of their foreheads? Or do you recall when…
Help for the directionally challenged
I am very directionally challenged. I can turn the wrong way coming out of a restaurant bathroom! Driving before I owned a GPS was…
Go to war with the Word
Paul’s words about your life of faith sound like war, don’t they? “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the…
Sin is a sickness that Jesus can cure
The Christian church should be the most offensive and most beautiful place in our culture. In reply to the Pharisees who were offended that…
Why Paul loved grace (and we do too)
The apostle Paul was the poster child for grace. If the internet would have been invented two thousand years earlier, he immediately would have…
Best chapter ever?
In the early 1600s, Thomas Goodwin, an English preacher, wrote a lot of words about God. A lot of words. When put together, Goodwin’s…