Love Hates

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” — Romans 12:9 Love. We celebrate it. Write songs about it. Build weddings around it. Tell our children to choose it. Hate? Not so much. We speak of hate as if it’s always the enemy of love. But Paul doesn’t. In […]

Who Wrote Hebrews? (And Why the Answer Isn’t as Important as You Think)

One of the questions people often ask when studying Hebrews is, “Who wrote it?” My usual answer is simple: God. That may sound like a way of avoiding the question, but it is actually the most certain answer we have. The human author never identifies himself. Unlike Paul’s letters, Hebrews opens without a greeting or […]

A Hebrew Summer

In just a few moments, we will finish filming A Hebrew Summer, our online Bible study through the book of Hebrews. Over the last two and a half weeks, I have had the privilege of sitting down with fifteen different teachers as we worked our way through this incredible New Testament book. We didn’t record the […]

What moves you?

We’ve all been there. The moment. That moment when something takes over. Anger. Frustration. Fear. Anxiety. Worry. Whatever it is. You feel it. And then it starts moving things around inside of you. Your thoughts. Your words. Your attitude. Your body language. Your actions. Sometimes before you even realize what’s happening. Someone says something. And […]

Of Calendars and Prophecy – Part 1

The Problem With Prophetic Years I was recently on a podcast and had a great time discussing the Bible, prophecy, Daniel’s seventy weeks, and the dating of Jesus’ death. One of the topics that came up was calendaring systems and how we arrive at some of the dates that are commonly presented in Bible studies, […]

Are We More Certain Than We Should Be?

Every Easter season the debates begin again. Was Jesus crucified on Friday? Was it Thursday? Was it Wednesday? Someone pulls out a chart. Someone else pulls out an astronomical table. Before long, people are counting backward, counting forward, calculating moon phases, and debating ancient calendars as if they have a first-century Jewish almanac sitting on […]