“Oh, If You Would But Listen to Me!”: The Center of the Psalms, the Central Issue for Us
Overall Israel disobeyed the Lord. They turned from his ways to their own. We can say more, though. For mere disobedience sounds too external. It can imply their primary issue…
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Sin Is “Barbs In Your Eyes, Thorns In Your Sides”
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes…
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Featured
Does Signing A Membership Form Go Against Jesus’s Teaching On Oaths In Matthew 5:33-37?
This post was written for my church at Evangelical Community Church in Stamford, CT. I include it here because, although it is specifically about what our church is doing with…
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Something to Try: Scheduled Praying
“Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.” (Psalm 55:17) “Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at…
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Christian Living
How Can Jesus Live in a Sinner Like Me?
At a Bible study at our church recently, we came upon the point in Colossians where the climax of the gospel is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians…
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Back at Writing
My blog writing habit has decreased (died?) over the past year and a half. The COVID shake-up, a job transition, and now being a senior pastor are all excuses I…
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Culture
Favorite Books Read in 2020
In the previous post, I listed the books I was able to read in 2020. Here are my favorites of those books from different categories. Also included are very short…
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Books Read in 2020
(Yearly books read post side-note: Reader, please feel free to skip this post if it sounds boastful at any point. Personal posts like this on my blog are mainly for…
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Devotional
God’s Forgiveness: Sin Is Serious, but So Is Forgiveness
We can fall into two opposite errors when we think of God’s forgiveness. Many twenty-first century people fall into the first error by taking God’s forgiveness for granted. “Of course…
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You and I Are Part of the “Them”: Curbing Our Judging of the Culture
They do wrong and evil. They know it and yet keep doing it. They even give approval to others who do it. This is Paul’s point in Romans 1:32: They…
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