John 20:24-29 Sometimes unbelief is not so much a rejection of what happened but the fear of what comes next. It’s not so much that...

Revelation 8 We are now well into what I call the meat and potatoes of the Book of Revelation. And to understand what’s going on here in...

Revelation 7 The Christian faith is a deeply ironic one. It’s a series of glorious non-contradictory contradictions and beautiful...

Isaiah 34:1-35:10 In war, victory is far more political than personal. At least if you fight a war that rages on your own soil, there’s...

Psalm 89; Revelation 1 The psalm we sang responsively this morning was just one small section of Psalm 89. Psalm 89 is a very...

Jude All sin is essentially a theatrical reproduction of Satan’s rebellion against God. Satan and his angels would not live under...

1 John 5 Once the world was your enemy, snarling at you, growling against you, threatening to do the bidding of its master the devil and...

1 John 2:15-29 There’s something rather comedic about the devil’s final temptation of Christ. When Satan offers our Lord all the kingdoms...

1 John 1:1-2:14 One thing I love so much about the Christian faith is that it’s both gloriously complicated and gloriously simple. You...

Isaiah 14:1-23 What are your favorite songs to hear or sing during the Advent or Christmas season? No doubt many of us love the sound of...

Isaiah 2 Down in the valley of the shadow of death, sorrow reigns. Nation rises against nation. Brother wars against brother. The rich...

Isaiah 1:1-28 “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know. My people do not understand.” So says...

Revelation 19 In the book of Psalms, occasionally you find these clusters of psalms that all begin with the word Hallelujah. Hallelujah...

Daniel 2:1-23 There’s a kind of genius to Nebuchadnezzar’s madness here in Daniel 2, or perhaps there’s a kind of madness to his genius....

Matthew 28 Sometimes in your life, you encounter a rather strange kind of unbelief in people. It’s not the unbelief of ignorance, where...

Matthew 27:11-32 When Pilate realizes he’s not able to reason with the Chief Priests and that they’re going to riot if he doesn’t hand...

Matthew 27:1-10 There’s a certain strategy that Satan likes to employ to destroy our faith, a strategy I suppose we could call “corrupt...

Jeremiah 30; Matthew 26:57-75 “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off...

Matthew 26:20-35 Throughout my years as a pastor, a few people who are outside of our communion have gotten angry when I’ve told them...

Jeremiah 23 As the prophet Jeremiah shows us, you don’t get rebirth without death. You don’t getmbalm without a wound. You don’t get...