Essays
Essays and articles on Scripture, theology, and the Christian life.
Weird Bible Stories
Collection · 4 partsBible Study is Boring
Bible study feels boring when sixty-six different books get read in one flat voice. Read each aisle of this library the way it deserves, and studying Scripture stops being boring and starts being the craft Paul calls it.
Read article →The Dwelling Place
God made space and time for us to live in, which means he lives outside both, holding the universe in the palm of his hand. So why has he spent all of history moving closer? From the garden to the torn curtain to the human heart, this is the story of where God lives, and how far he came to be with you.
Read article →Where the Bible Is Silent
Collection · 5 partsScripture leaves some things unsaid on purpose. This collection traces what happens when confident voices — cults, conspiracy theories, sincere believers chasing certainty — try to fill those blank spaces anyway, and what it looks like to let God's silence stand.
Begin reading →In That Number
"The elect" is not a sealed roster drawn up before creation with most of us left off. It is one more name for the believers (the saints, the brothers, the Way), a jersey the church wears. The five-century fight between Calvin and Arminius dissolves the moment you remember that God does not stand inside time: he has all knowledge, not foreknowledge. The door is still open, and everyone who calls is in.
Read article →When was 'In the Beginning'
How old is the earth? Two camps of faithful believers answer with elaborate machinery, and neither answer touches the arc of God's love. The honest word is "I do not know," and laying both machines down is relief, not defeat.
Read article →The Big Words: What Preachers Mean When They Use Them
Plain-English explanations of the theological terms preachers use most, from Gospel and Sin to Eschatology and Pneumatology.
Read article →Choose Jesus
You are not an accident. Explore the four questions every human heart asks, and the one answer that changes everything.
Read article →I Am Not Perfect
Jesus said be perfect. You already know you are not. The command is real, but perfection in His mouth means something different from what you think.
Read article →It's Too Late!
The thief had seconds. The prodigal had wasted years. Manasseh had fifty-five years of deliberate destruction. Scripture presents all three, and the answer was the same.
Read article →What's In a Name?
Juliet called names arbitrary. Scripture calls them declarations. Every name given to Jesus reveals who He is, and God has kept one more name in reserve. Yours.
Read article →The Heaviest Word in the Bible
Collection · 5 partsThe word "glory" has been used so carelessly for so long that it has lost all practical meaning. This five-part collection recovers it — going back to a Hebrew word with a physical definition that will reframe everything you thought you knew about God, sin, the cross, and what it means to live differently because of all three.
Begin reading →I Hate My Neighbor
It is the honest confession most Christians won't say out loud. Jesus heard it too, from a lawyer trying to limit his obligations. The answer He gave is more demanding and more surprising than anyone expected.
Read article →All You Need Is Love?
The Beatles said the word "love" 96 times in four minutes and never defined it once. That vagueness is not just a pop music problem: it is a spiritual one. The Bible uses at least six distinct words where English uses one, and the differences change everything.
Read article →What is Prayer?
Jesus assumed his audience already knew what prayer was. We may not. This article traces prayer from the garden of Eden to the letters of Paul, recovering a definition that is simpler and deeper than most of us have been told.
Read article →Did God Really Say?
The first question in the Bible came from the serpent, not from God. He is still asking it, and the only defense against his distortions is knowing the God whose words he keeps misrepresenting.
Read article →Can the Bible Be Trusted?
Collection · 2 partsA series of essays for the skeptic who wants honest answers before opening the book.
Begin reading →Holy Week
Collection · 5 partsWalking through the final days before the resurrection — from Palm Sunday through the empty tomb.
Begin reading →Where the Bible Is Silent
Scripture leaves some things unsaid on purpose. This collection traces what happens when confident voices — cults, conspiracy theories, sincere believers chasing certainty — try to fill those blank spaces anyway, and what it looks like to let God's silence stand.
The Heaviest Word in the Bible
The word "glory" has been used so carelessly for so long that it has lost all practical meaning. This five-part collection recovers it — going back to a Hebrew word with a physical definition that will reframe everything you thought you knew about God, sin, the cross, and what it means to live differently because of all three.
- The Heaviest Word in the Bible: The God Particle
- The Heaviest Word in the Bible: The Most Useless Word in the English Language
- The Heaviest Word in the Bible: The Word That Never Lost Its Weight
- The Heaviest Word in the Bible: Maximum Shame, Maximum Glory
- The Heaviest Word in the Bible: Fake Heavy
Can the Bible Be Trusted?
A series of essays for the skeptic who wants honest answers before opening the book.
Holy Week
Walking through the final days before the resurrection — from Palm Sunday through the empty tomb.
- The Shifting Date of Easter
- The King Has Come
- The Upper Room: Where the Old Covenant Ended and the New Began
- Relationship
- He Is Risen