Jesus also gives us the reason to live where we live. Jesus’s incarnation was with a view to saving the world, and so is our cultural engagement. As light in a dark place and as salt in food, the pr...  Read More

The difference between believing that God is gracious and tasting that God is gracious is as different as having a rational belief that honey is sweet and having the actual sense of its sweetness....  Read More

"...when all is lost, God sends someone to speak His words. There is something magical about the spoken Word. It speaks us back to life again."...  Read More

What about those of us who know we are not living the victorious Christian life? You blow it with your kids. You struggle to love and respect your husband. You can’t quit porn. You can’t forgive J...  Read More

It’s not us. Jesus, the cosmic Prophet of God, will always tell us the truth, interpret reality rightly for us, and graciously and personally restructure our own prophetic record by the colorful world...  Read More

But the Apostle Paul gives us more grace in our struggle with sin, not less. The grace to already be delivered from sin (it’s done), the grace to already be dead to sin (it’s over), the grace to cour...  Read More

Today we go to church to draw near to God not because of temporary and ineffective animal sacrifices but because of the Better Sacrifice, who absorbed and dealt with all our self-centeredness on the C...  Read More

How do we live with a bipolar life? Specifically, what do we do in pain? Do we just stand there and bleed (think Wyatt Earp in Tombstone)? Psalm 42 and 43 says, “NO.” We do something heroic: pray ...  Read More

God appears to Solomon amidst his high place. God appears to Solomon in his mess. Solomon has a close encounter with the strangeness of the grace of God. The God of grace is salvation....  Read More

Paul’s cry is that salvation for the skeptic and for the believing is always received not achieved....  Read More

What is the gospel? The gospel is good news of a Jesus-victory, a Jesus-deliverance, a Jesus-salvation already won....  Read More

...Jesus becomes rejected and unacceptable in our place so we can be accepted forever. ...  Read More