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, […]

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 […]

The Noise Is Loud

There’s this feeling a lot of people carry right now… like following Jesus has become harder than ever. Not because church buildings disappeared.Not because Bibles vanished.Not because faith no longer exists. But because the noise is everywhere. Messages.Opinions.Hot takes.Arguments.Reels.Platforms.Voices. Everybody preaching something. And from every direction it feels like there’s another invitation to drift. Another […]