“To comfort me, you have to come close. Come sit beside me on my mourning bench.” – Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son Grief often isolates us, even amongst those of us who grieve the loss of the very same person or thing. I…
My recent sermon from last Sunday at Midland Bible Church is up on the MBC iTunes podcast – click here to listen to it or download it. As the title suggests, it is about brokenness and grace, and comes from Mark 7:24-30 – the story…
I had the opportunity to preach at my home church (Midland Bible Church) for three weeks again last month, and two of my sermons are now up as a podcast on iTunes. Below are the first and third of a 3-week series on Idolatry…
I’ve had the opportunity to preach at my home church (Midland Bible Church) for three weeks, and my three sermons are now up on their website and iTunes. It’s a loose series on the Image of God. I’d appreciate any feedback you can give…
I have found a new way to redeem my commute around Dallas. Typically, I will listen to a sermon/lecture in the mornings while I drive to class/work, and then listen to music in the afternoon/evening when I get off. Recently, though, I have begun…
I am always excited when I discover artists who use their medium well for the glory of God. It’s so easy to do poor Christian art with a good (even biblical) message and assume it’s thus good art. I can’t tell you how many…
My sermon on Philippians 3:7-11 (“Your Greatest Treasure”) is up on the Midland Bible Church podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/midland-bible-church-podcast/id306156719?uo=4 or you can listen/download it at the MBC website: http://midlandbible.org/sermons/?preacher=6…
One of my fellow seminarians at DTS (Morgan Reed) posted a poem by the holy Ephrem Syrus that he translated from Syriac. Two of the verses struck me and seemed a fitting meditation on Resurrection Sunday – so I wanted to share them with…
Right after writing my post on Forgiveness as Death & Resurrection yesterday, I ran across and article by Tim Keller on the Resurgence website dealing with the very same topic. He does a great job of expounding on forgiveness from a biblical/theological viewpoint and then taking a practical…
We’ve been talking a lot about the problem of evil and suffering in a couple of my classes at DTS recently, and as I have been doing some reading on the subject, I came across this quote from Dostoevsky: “I believe like a child…
