When I was in my early twenties, I used to watch a lot of cable news. I was very interested in politics and being on the right side of...

Is it wrong to stab someone with a knife? Surgeons do it all the time. Why is it okay for surgeons to stab people when it is considered...

When I was a senior in high school, I read the Bible from cover to cover for the first time. It changed my life. I was struck by its...

The seeker-sensitive church of the 1990s emphasized teaching people how Jesus met their “felt needs.” Jesus will make you a better...

A few months ago, I was having lunch with a friend who used to be a pastor, but who had been wounded and is now undergoing the process of...

“The gospel is inherently political.” People throw this phrase around today uncritically. But is it true? I think what they mean by it is...

The nastiest letters I get about my sermons are when I challenge political ideology. In 2006, during the height of the Bush...

When my wife was pregnant with our second child (my daughter, Avery), we wondered together what she would look like. Would she have red...

Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? This question plagues us. It plagued the authors of the Bible (Habakkuk 1:13)....

The other day, I got a text from my wife: “Zack’s art class ends at 5:45.” What does this mysterious text mean? Well, it depends. Perhaps...

I love the Bible. It is an amazing book (or, collection of books, really). I think what I love most about the Bible is that it is raw....

When I was in my early twenties, I started to feel a radical disconnect between my values and those of mainstream evangelicalism. We were...