The Limits of Our Discipleship

February 28, 2021
          Peter isn’t happy about what’s going to happen to Jesus.  Neither are we.  Suffer?  Killed?  Terrible!  Let’s be followers without the suffering.  In seminary, no one quite knew what…
I put him there.  I know why and for what.  You put him there.  You know why, and for what.  We don’t get to Easter, we don’t get to get…

Let Your Sword Be Prayer

April 19, 2019
Where did Peter get a sword?  How long had he been carrying that around?  He has it with him, that night, there in the garden.  He had a bad feeling:…

Contact

March 31, 2019
For quite some time, Christians didn’t need to think very much about their faith and beliefs.  Yes, sure, society and culture were fallen, but in impersonal ways that didn’t touch…

Glory, Cross

March 3, 2019
Christ came to proclaim, to call.  He came to assure whom he called.  We aren’t living for ourselves, anymore.  We’re living for Jesus: we live for him by seeing ourselves…

Hope for a Good Conscience

November 4, 2018
My last year at seminary, one of the theology professors taught a course called something like “Theories of the Atonement.”  Over centuries, theologians have presented different explanations regarding the atonement,…