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 […]

Stop Climbing!

All these years, being in valleys from time to time, I have just realized something. You don’t climb out of a valley. You walk through it. Somehow, I missed that. Every time I found myself in a difficult season, I treated the valley like a low place I had fallen into. And in my mind, […]

We All Lost

We all lost. Words were said. Actions were taken. The reactions of hurt, pain, or simply the pride of being the one who wasn’t wrong. But we all were wrong. We lost. It was a big price to pay. From the outset, we didn’t realize there was no way to win. Yes, we may have felt like we […]

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 […]

Sandcastles and Motes

There’s something almost sacred about the beach early in the morning. Before the umbrellas.Before the laughter.Before the footprints. The sand is untouched.Flat.Open. Like a blank canvas waiting for someone to leave their mark on it. Then people begin to arrive. Families.Friends.Children carrying buckets bigger than their arms can manage. And all day long people build. […]