Category: Formational Theology

More and more I am drawn to this one idea: that trusting God is absolutely foundational to life. When Jesus says, “Believe in me” He is talking about trusting Him. Trust Him to know how life is supposed to work. Trust that He knows what He is talking about...

“If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” (Lk.9:23+)  These are hard verses. I don’t like to...

Jesus said, “The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eye is good, your whole body is full of light.” Apparently, what you see matters....

It would be one thing if Jesus had asked us to do things we could actually do, like feed the dog or take out the garbage. But He asks us to love our enemy, return good for evil, forgive 70 times 7, never lust or harbor contempt — and...

I have to say that for much of my life I was baffled by the way people could brush Truth (with a capital ‘T’) aside as if it were some kind of nuisance. Much of the time when I encountered Truth myself, I tried to change because I wanted to...

I was really taken this morning by the opening phrase of Psalm 51: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love”...

What is Jesus really talking about when He says that the least person in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than John? And why would He bother to even make such a statement?...

Another bad sermon recently — this one telling us we need to praise God as a way of overcoming our difficulties. Not that everything this guy said was bad. One really good point he made was that by the way we speak, we actually  end up praising our problems...