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Good Biblical Words: Mercy (Matthew 9:13)
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice.'" Matthew 9:13 This...
July 31, 2017
What Does Winning Look Like for Christians?
Before Donald Trump became president, he promised that if he were elected, Americans would "win...
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February 20, 2017
Is the Eucharist more powerful than an executive order?
On a recent podcast episode with Scot McKnight and Kenneth Tanner, Kenneth made the comment...
July 2016
July 01, 2016
Is there a Christianity that isn’t toxic?
Have American Christians become what Jesus came to stop us from being? It’s not an...
June 2016
June 20, 2016
Why I still believe in hell
My dear friend and podcast-mate Jason Micheli just wrote a very kind review of my...
April 2016
April 15, 2016
The 12 scriptures that inspired my book
When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn't read the...
April 05, 2016
Can Jesus save us from keeping score? #MercyNotSacrifice
From now until the release of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us,...
February 2016
February 09, 2016
Ash Wednesday: repentance and solidarity with the crucified
Ashes to Go. It's the latest trend in the mainline Protestant church for celebrating Ash...
January 2016
January 11, 2016
Can American Christianity be detoxified? (A summary of my first book)
Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...
November 2015
November 28, 2015
Can Christian theology promote terrorism?
We don't know exactly what motivated the white terrorist who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic...
July 2014
July 15, 2014
“Try me, O Lord, and test me” (a prayer for integrity, Psalm 26:2-3)
Today's Daily Office reading included two verses from a psalm that comprise an awesome prayer...
November 2013
November 13, 2013
Lord, I thank you that I’m not like those people who thank God they’re not like other people
Our senior pastor Larry Buxton, who's a baseball nut, says that parables are supposed to...
October 2013
October 16, 2013
A second chance to love a stranger
I got an email yesterday from a church member that made my heart swell and...
September 2013
September 18, 2013
The God who wants us to be family #podcast
We've been preaching a sermon series at Burke United Methodist Church called "Love actually" (titled...
September 14, 2013
What does Pope Francis mean by telling atheists to “abide by their own consciences”?
Well Pope Francis probably made some more Christians angry this week with a 2500 word...
August 2013
August 13, 2013
Is morality the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
This past weekend, I got to hear my favorite podcast preacher Jonathan Martin live for...
August 12, 2013
Feminism, sex, and virtue in Margaret Farley’s Just Love
I have been reading Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Ethics, the book...
August 04, 2013
Five verses God has tattooed on my heart: #2 Matthew 9:13
I've often told the story of how I discovered the verse that became the basis...
July 2013
July 09, 2013
What are the “weightier matters of the law”? (Matthew 23:23)
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "weightier matters of the law"? It...
June 2013
June 25, 2013
When I forget my song…
There's an African folktale that I've read with both of my sons. In the story,...
March 2013
March 24, 2013
Ugliness Into Beauty #6: Proof of God’s Mercy
There's an elephant in the room when we talk about the cross. The cross is...
February 2013
February 11, 2013
Surprised by mercy: my train-wreck conversion story
I was invited to share an occasion when I was surprised by mercy. It was...
February 07, 2013
Is Jesus saving the world from us?
Is Jesus saving the world from us? It's a different way to talk about salvation,...
January 2013
January 20, 2013
Who is Romans 9:22-23 talking about? (A response to Greg Boyd)
I'm one of the "pod-rishioners" of the popular Michigan pastor Greg Boyd. One thing I...
December 2012
December 29, 2012
Javert vs. Valjean: the two Christianities of Les Miserables
***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...
December 27, 2012
Looking Back on 2012: April-May
In March, I fasted from blogging for Lent. April and May of 2012 were dominated...
December 19, 2012
Why should the wicked fear God's mercy?
Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...
December 17, 2012
Mary's Magnificat: "His mercy is for those who fear Him"
This weekend, I preached on Mary's Magnificat (audio, Luke 1:46-55) at our church in the...
December 10, 2012
Is God a capitalist? (John Locke and the Romans Road)
One of the theories Doug Campbell advances in The Deliverance of God is that the...
December 08, 2012
Romans 4: Believing promises, obeying contracts, and retribution
One of the struggles I have with the word "covenant" is that it seems to...
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