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Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Why Teaching with The Chosen is Powerful The Chosen is a television drama series that portrays the life of Jesus through a multiseason, episodic format. Created, directed, and cowritten by Dallas Jenkins, the show presents the story of Jesus in a unique way by deeply...

Sermon Exegesis: Cooling the Air with Insight

Sermon Exegesis: Cooling the Air with Insight

Why Sermon Exegesis Matters Deeply Here’s another thing I’ve heard Tom Long say: “Come sum- mer time, everyone wants to feel the cool of an air condi- tioner, but no one wants to hear the HVAC rumbling right beside their ear.” I think of this advice nearly every time...

Following Jesus in a World Obsessed with Followers

Following Jesus in a World Obsessed with Followers

Why We Crave to Be Seen by God We are hardwired to desire affirmation, and that’s not a bad quality in and of itself. In fact, we see this impulse from the earliest stages of our lives. I think of my nephews when they were little. Whether they were attempting a...

Do We Have a Guardian Angel? A Look at the Evidence

Do We Have a Guardian Angel? A Look at the Evidence

Understanding the Idea of a Guardian Angel Beliefs about angels are typically an amalgam of what people pick up from popular culture, what they remember from childhood cartoons, and what they have culled from casual Bible reading. Consequently, there are a lot of...

Science and the Bible: God’s Truth in Creation and Scripture

Science and the Bible: God’s Truth in Creation and Scripture

Science and the Bible: Understanding Truth Through the Ages The Bible is the divine Word of God, but I think we are justified in believing that God expected every generation to interpret the Word according to the age in which they live. Those who dispute this put a...

Faith and Unity Can Turn Things Around

Faith and Unity Can Turn Things Around

What I’ve learned about the power of faith to repair what’s broken in our confused and divided nation. “How do we turn things around in this country?” That’s a question I hear quite often, coming from folks of all ages and points of view. You may have muttered the...

Making Jesus’s Geography Meaningful

Making Jesus’s Geography Meaningful

Jesus was not only a master teacher but also a gifted outdoor instructor.  He often put his nature-filled classroom to work leaning into its physical geography, human geography, and natural history.  But Jesus used geography in another way as well.  He taught in...

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Have You Felt That Insidious Pressure to Perform? A poor man plodded toward home, bent under a heavy sack of potatoes. A wagon drew up beside him. “Climb aboard,” the driver said. The man climbed into the wagon, dragging his burden with him. He sat but continued to...

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Why Teaching with The Chosen is Powerful The Chosen is a television drama series that portrays the life of Jesus through a multiseason, episodic format. Created, directed, and cowritten by Dallas Jenkins, the show presents the story of Jesus in a unique way by deeply...

Sermon Exegesis: Cooling the Air with Insight

Sermon Exegesis: Cooling the Air with Insight

Why Sermon Exegesis Matters Deeply Here’s another thing I’ve heard Tom Long say: “Come sum- mer time, everyone wants to feel the cool of an air condi- tioner, but no one wants to hear the HVAC rumbling right beside their ear.” I think of this advice nearly every time...

Following Jesus in a World Obsessed with Followers

Following Jesus in a World Obsessed with Followers

Why We Crave to Be Seen by God We are hardwired to desire affirmation, and that’s not a bad quality in and of itself. In fact, we see this impulse from the earliest stages of our lives. I think of my nephews when they were little. Whether they were attempting a...

Do We Have a Guardian Angel? A Look at the Evidence

Do We Have a Guardian Angel? A Look at the Evidence

Understanding the Idea of a Guardian Angel Beliefs about angels are typically an amalgam of what people pick up from popular culture, what they remember from childhood cartoons, and what they have culled from casual Bible reading. Consequently, there are a lot of...

Science and the Bible: God’s Truth in Creation and Scripture

Science and the Bible: God’s Truth in Creation and Scripture

Science and the Bible: Understanding Truth Through the Ages The Bible is the divine Word of God, but I think we are justified in believing that God expected every generation to interpret the Word according to the age in which they live. Those who dispute this put a...

Faith and Unity Can Turn Things Around

Faith and Unity Can Turn Things Around

What I’ve learned about the power of faith to repair what’s broken in our confused and divided nation. “How do we turn things around in this country?” That’s a question I hear quite often, coming from folks of all ages and points of view. You may have muttered the...

Making Jesus’s Geography Meaningful

Making Jesus’s Geography Meaningful

Jesus was not only a master teacher but also a gifted outdoor instructor.  He often put his nature-filled classroom to work leaning into its physical geography, human geography, and natural history.  But Jesus used geography in another way as well.  He taught in...

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Have You Felt That Insidious Pressure to Perform? A poor man plodded toward home, bent under a heavy sack of potatoes. A wagon drew up beside him. “Climb aboard,” the driver said. The man climbed into the wagon, dragging his burden with him. He sat but continued to...

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