Shame in the Light of the Gospel
"The Gospel does not make sense, unless you have a heart to enter your own shame."
Your Servants Love Her Very Rubble
How can we love God, if don't love the Church he has made?
Suicide, Sin, and Grace
What does the Church have to offer in the face of increasing suicide rates and a rising mental health crisis?
Punishing Children for their Fathers’ Sins
In modern America, we have decided that punishing children for the perceived crimes of their parents is both acceptable and practical.
Five Theses on Church Discipline
None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
None Righteous, No Not One
To admit disaster to our Father in heaven: this is the found coin, the recovered sheep.
What is to become of the Confession?
It’s one thing to say, “I have done something selfish or mean, or prideful.” It is another to say, “I am selfish, I am proud, I am greedy, I am mean, I am jealous, I am prejudiced, I am power-hungry.”
What kind of sycophant do you want me to be?
Fraud, including sycophancy, is endless: it corrosively renders all interactions questionable.