1) Azusa Pacific University and biblical sexuality 2) Fighting against sin or for joy? 3) Answering Andy Stanley’s Hermeneutics 4) With great power comes great temptation
In 1557 John Calvin wrote his preface to the commentary he had produced on the Psalms. In the preface, Calvin gives an important perspective on this particular OT book. I offer it here for your reading pleasure. I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, An Anatomy of the Soul; for…
Photo by Ian Kim on Unsplash What does this mean? Failing backward means… A person fails backward because he/she is lazy and doesn’t want to bother themselves with knowing what they need to know in order to get the job done. That’s failing backward. A person fails backward because he/she is arrogant. They wrongly think they have all…
As a husband, dad of four, pastor of a church, and Ph.D student (in that order!), people often ask me how they can pray for me. There must be something in my eyes that cries out, “Help!” Most of the time, my answer reflects whatever is most pressing on my mind at that moment. Busy…
This month on the blog we are trying to touch on the theme of leadership in different ways. Whether you are a single mom trying to lead her home, a husband struggling to lead his family, a manager at a local store trying to lead your employees, or a pastor trying to lead in your…
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash Pain, suffering, disappointments, and hardships can only be effectively managed and sorted through within the context of community. I believe that with all my being. I may not live up to that truth; at times, I try to wade through my pain, suffering, disappointments, and hardships on my own…the typical “lone-ranger Christian”…
Are you productive? I’ll ask a different way: Do you merely get things done or do you get the right things done? For years I considered myself a productive person. I’ve always been both early to rise and late to bed. I had lists, projects, and goals I wanted to accomplish and aimed my life at…
Photo by Oliver Sjöström on Unsplash According to the CDC, just over 70% of American adults are considered overweight or obese. So if you struggle with overeating and under-exercising, in the words of Paul, “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.” Inherent to this struggle with the scale is the motivation to pursue and…
Did you know Thomas Jefferson, one of America’s founding fathers, was a deist? One of the things he believed as a deist is that Jesus was not God. Furthermore, Jefferson did not believe Jesus rose from the grave. Rejecting anything he deemed irrational, Jefferson heavily edited the Bible and produced his own version. His version…
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels Philip Yancey in this book Reaching for the Invisible God comments that Basil of Caesarea’s faith was “ambidextrous” because he simultaneously held God’s blessings in his right hand and life’s difficulties in his left hand. He trusted that God was good and would accomplish His good purposes through pain and…
Theology Along the Way 