Praying with Paul
When I was in 8th grade, I was on my middle school’s tennis team. This was the absolute pinnacle of my athletic career as a young man. I...
How to get the most out of our series in Ephesians
This past week we started our new series through the book of Ephesians. For my post this week, I thought I would share a few ways that you...
A Theology of Clothes
This past Sunday, I shared in my sermon what I called a theology of clothes. For our post this week, I wanted to talk a bit more about what...
What does Jesus say about prayer?
Over the course of the month of June, we talked a lot about how we learn to pray. One of the theses of the series was that the Bible...
Claiming the Promises–What does it mean?
I called our current sermon series—which wraps up this Sunday—Claiming the Promises: A Series on Prayer because I wanted to highlight...
A Meditation on the Prayer of Hannah
Our sermon this week looked at Hannah’s prayer in the book of I Samuel. A few years ago, I wrote a short meditation on this passage...
Fasting in the Old and New Testament
Our sermon this past week, from Isaiah 58, centered on a lengthy discussion of fasting—its purpose and nature. In many ways, it is an...
Isaiah 57 and a Vivid Metaphor
Our sermon text from this past week, Isaiah 57, opens by drawing upon a common metaphor for the covenant relationship found in both the Old...
The Scriptural Idea of Revival
Death is both a metaphor and a reality in the Scriptures. In Biblical Theology, Gerhardus Vos says that the physical dissolution of the...