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Essays and articles on Scripture, theology, and the Christian life.
The Heaviest Word in the Bible — Maximum Shame, Maximum Glory
The Heaviest Word in the BibleWith kavod restored, the whole story of Scripture reads differently. The cross stands at the center — Christ took on the full, actual weight of human sin, and what the world read as defeat the Father declared the moment of maximum kavod. This essay traces the full arc from the image of God to Revelation 21, the gospel told entirely through the lens of one word.
Read article →The Heaviest Word in the Bible — The Word That Never Lost Its Weight
The Heaviest Word in the BibleThe Hebrew word kavod means heavy, weighty, substantial — the property of a thing that cannot be ignored or dismissed. This essay restores the word to its original mass through the Hebrew and Greek words behind "glory," showing how a precise concept survived translation across two languages. It then walks through the moments in Scripture when God's kavod broke into the visible world — and why people always fell on their faces.
Read article →The Heaviest Word in the Bible — The Most Useless Word in the English Language
The Heaviest Word in the BibleThe word "glory" has been borrowed by nationalists, naturalists, athletes, and liturgists until it means whatever the context demands and nothing in particular. This essay traces the drift and names the damage.
Read article →The Heaviest Word in the Bible — The God Particle
The Heaviest Word in the BiblePhysics is the study of reality, and Genesis 1 is a statement about physical reality. This essay establishes the framework for the whole collection by examining mass, gravity, and what happens when precise words drift into uselessness.
Read article →The Heaviest Word in the Bible — Introduction
The Heaviest Word in the BibleOne of the most important words in Scripture has been used so lightly for so long that it has lost its original weight. This introduction to the five-part collection explains what the series sets out to recover and why it matters.
Read article →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 →Which Books?
Can the Bible Be Trusted?Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Protestants all read slightly different Bibles. The skeptic who sees that disagreement as evidence that none of it can be trusted turns out to have the wrong conclusion — and the evidence says why.
Read article →Which Bible?
Can the Bible Be Trusted?With hundreds of English translations available, the question a skeptic asks — can any of them be trusted after so many centuries of copying across so many languages? — turns out to have a very good answer.
Read article →Can the Bible Be Trusted? — Introduction
Can the Bible Be Trusted?The skeptic's question deserves a serious answer. This introduction to the two-part collection explains what the series examines — and why the evidence turns out to be stronger than most people expect.
Read article →He Is Risen
Holy WeekThe resurrection of Jesus is not a past-tense historical event. It is a present-tense reality — and the witnesses who encountered the risen Jesus form an unbroken chain that runs from an empty tomb in Jerusalem to a roof in Oklahoma to your door.
Read article →Relationship
Holy WeekThe whole of Scripture is the account of God working to restore man's broken relationship with Him. In the garden, Adam and Eve's lack of trust brought fear into the world and hung a curtain between them and God. Holy Week is where he tore it down.
Read article →The King Has Come
Holy WeekThe crowd that welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem got every ceremony right and every expectation wrong — cheering a King they did not know, for a kingdom they could not imagine.
Read article →The Shifting Date of Easter
Holy WeekWhy the date of Easter changes each year — the astronomy, history, and theology behind a moveable feast.
Read article →The Upper Room: Where the Old Covenant Ended and the New Began
Holy WeekThe events of the Last Supper — foot washing, the Eucharist, Judas, and Gethsemane — as the hinge on which the entire history of redemption turns.
Read article →Holy Week — Introduction
Holy WeekThe final days before the resurrection are the most examined week in human history. This introduction to the five-part collection explains what these essays set out to recover — and why the events of that week demand more than a single reading.
Read article →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
Can the Bible Be Trusted?
A series of essays for the skeptic who wants honest answers before opening the book.
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 God Particle
- The Most Useless Word in the English Language
- The Word That Never Lost Its Weight
- Maximum Shame, Maximum Glory