Keep Refrigerated

Keep yourselves… That’s an interesting phrase. Because most of us have spent our lives thinking about God keeping us. God holding us. God protecting us. God refusing to let go. And then Jude says… “Keep yourselves in the love of God.” Wait. If God loves me… What exactly am I supposed to keep? Maybe the […]

Jude: The Ultimate Non-Name Dropper.

How do you introduce yourself? It’s an interesting question. Because what you lead with…usually tells people what you’re most proud of. Your career.Your accomplishments.Your degrees.Your family. We all choose something. Jude had a choice too. He opens his letter with these words: “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.” And immediately something […]

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 […]

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, […]