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November 2025

November 18, 2025
In keeping with this blog's call to lead a quiet life of stillness and faithfulness,...
November 14, 2025
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” “Garbage in,...
November 11, 2025
“You will hear a voice behind you saying, ‘This is the way. Follow it, whether...
November 10, 2025
Today, on a spiritual direction day, I’m walking, reading, studying, and praying—listening for direction in...
November 02, 2025
This post continues my Sojourn Series. You might enjoy reading the first five chapters before...

October 2025

October 21, 2025
This is Part Five of the Sojourn Series. You might enjoy reading the earlier chapters...
October 20, 2025
This is Part Four of the Sojourn Series. You might enjoy reading the earlier chapters...
October 15, 2025
This is Part Three of the Sojourn Series. You might enjoy reading the first two...
October 10, 2025
This is Part Two of the Sojourn Series. You might enjoy reading the first Part...
October 09, 2025
Recently, while watching some old video of me twenty years ago on tour with a...
October 01, 2025
Not long ago, I stood inside a re-created first-century synagogue at the Museum of the...

September 2025

September 15, 2025
Later this week, I am headed to the beach to celebrate my wife, Katie McLain,...
September 12, 2025
Growing up in the 80s and 90s, many of us remember Nancy Reagan’s famous campaign...
September 08, 2025
One of my favorite quotes comes from Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without a Country....
September 01, 2025
This Sunday at River Corner Church, we tried something a little different. We experimented with...

August 2025

August 22, 2025
In my last blog post, I looked at the four stages of faith and conversion...
August 18, 2025
Scripture reminds us that faith and conversion are not just moments but a journey. There...
August 12, 2025
I recently wrote on this for our work newsletter, but sometimes, four simple words—“I see...
August 11, 2025
Jesus promised that his voice would lead us. In John 10:27, Jesus states, “My sheep...

July 2025

July 27, 2025
Rodney Reeves writes in his Story of God Bible Commentary on Matthew, “False piety is...
July 24, 2025
Recently, my wife wrote about the importance of keeping church uncomplicated (check her blog out...
July 23, 2025
What’s something you said you’d never do… but then you did? For me, it was...
July 22, 2025
The Lord’s Table is a powerful opportunity to examine ourselves in a way that moves...
July 16, 2025
We live in a culture that often embraces a "go big or go home" way...
July 10, 2025
In the commentary introduction to The Two Ways—a volume that pairs the Didache with the...
July 01, 2025
The Lord’s Table is a powerful opportunity to examine ourselves in a way that moves...

June 2025

June 27, 2025
Sometimes we pray things we don't want to mean, and prayers we don't want to...
June 18, 2025
At the Lord’s Table, we are invited into a sacred sacrament—one that offers transformation, holds...
June 15, 2025
The New Testament is not just ancient history—it’s an open and living invitation to be...
June 12, 2025
When I was growing up, the Lord’s Table—also called communion, the Eucharist, or the Lord’s...
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