When you read the title of this post, you probably know what I mean. You know there’s a war you’re fighting right now. Maybe you’re fighting a war with anxiety, whether over the current COVID pandemic or something else. Maybe you’re fighting a war with temptation to sin. Maybe you’re fighting a war with laziness. Maybe you’re fighting a war […]
No one wants there to be a hell. CS Lewis once said that if he could get rid of any doctrine in Christianity, it would be that one. I think most of us feel the same way. No one wants to imagine the possibility of ending up there, and no one wants to imagine the possiblity of anyone we know […]
‘Tis the season — the season for snow, gift-giving, carols, family, big meals … and lawsuits. Christmas-related lawsuits and complaints have become as reliable a tradition as any other. Already a couple has won a $75,000 lawsuit against their homeowners’ association who wanted them to take down their Christmas light display. A Nebraska principal banned all things Christmas at her […]
The Bible uses lots of titles for Jesus. Son of God, Alpha and Omega, Lord, Son of Man. Most of these names, while they may be somewhat unfamiliar language, are easy to explain. But of all the titles used for Jesus in the Bible, there’s one used in the beginning of John’s Gospel that’s probably the most obscure and hard […]
Chances are, it’s a hot weekend for you. Throughout the United States and Europe, most places are seeing temps 10-20 degrees above normal, with heat indices even higher. It’s about the second strong heat wave in a hotter-than-normal summer, probably best spent indoors with the A/C running full blast. This isn’t earth-shattering news. This usually happens once or twice […]
So I haven’t posted on here in a while, and I intend to get back to posting more regularly soon. In the meantime, I thought I would post the manuscript of my most recent sermon, delivered on our church’s graduation Sunday: In 2008, when I graduated high school, it wasn’t my first graduation ceremony, nor would it be my last. […]
It’s been a while since I posted on here, and it’s mostly because I’ve been preparing for and on a trip to Chicago to help out with a Bible Quizzing regional tournament, and I’ve been preparing a Sunday sermon. So I figured I would post that sermon here. The focal verse is 1 Peter 3:15, how we need to always […]
The Bible is not a book to gloss over or minimize the harsh realities of life, either in this world or in the next. There are stories about war, descriptions of sacrifice and sexuality, and many other things that make our modern sensibilities cringe. Even more, there are things that might terrify us. So what is the worst of these? […]
No one likes to think about being gone one day. But it’s the one thing that everyone, rich or poor, American or Chinese, old or young, beloved or hated, arrogant or humble, selfless or selfish, have in common. There will come a day when we are no longer here on this earth, and we’ve entered our eternal dwelling. And so […]
The numbers, to the scientific community, are staggering: fully 38% of Americans believe that “God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.” This, according to the linked poll, is equal to the percentage of people who believe humans evolved over millions of years from lower life forms in a God-guided process. Perhaps even more surprisingly, this is […]
Just another jar of clay, named Clay. I’m a Christ-follower who messes up a lot, blessed to be a husband and youth worker, trying to share the message that saved me. My aim with this blog is to explore how we ought to live and think as Christ-followers in the midst of the realities of today’s world.
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