• Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?

    Throughout the years I’ve heard people say that God “allows” bad things to happen to us—which is often the theological conclusion that people come to when they deal with the question of, “Why do bad things happen if God is all powerful?” This has always been a complicated question for Christians to work with, but…

  • God’s Extravagant Love

    God is crazy about you. He is the most extravagant of pursuers out there. He knows every detail about you because he knit you together in your mother’s womb (Ps 139:13). He is so meticulous about you that he has even counted how many hairs there are on your head (Mt 10:30)! He cares about…

  • Across Denominational Lines

    The Bible never promotes division in the church. Not only did Jesus pray that we’d all be one, but Paul called the Corinthians out when they began to identify themselves too much with church leaders rather than with Christ. It is clear from the Scriptures that there was a struggle to keep the church unified…

  • The Error of Christianity VS Science

    When it comes to sins we commit en masse as Christians, pride is towards the top. Christians have painted an image of themselves as scientifically ignorant. We refuse to listen to anything that can’t be proved with our Bibles and we hold the observations of an ancient culture trying best to understand their surroundings as…

  • The Already But Not Yet

    The Gospel of Mark has been forcing me to preach on a lot of eschatology at church lately. Today we took a look what theologians call, “the already but not yet”—an understanding of our currently place in spiritual history based on a tension we find all throughout the Scriptures. A Biblical Theology of the New Testament …

  • Resurrection: The Final Afterlife

    The American church has more or less communicated this idea that when we die, we go off to Heaven to be with God. While this is true, the Bible communicates this to be more or less an intermediate state on the destination to which we are headed: a new Heaven and a new Earth with…

  • Party Jesus

    It seems that the only image of Jesus that got pierced into our heads is of him hanging on the cross. Therefore, whenever we think of him we’re left in the dark moment of his death, rather than in the joy of his resurrection and life. That being said let me tell you a few…

  • Leading Worship in Ypsilanti Tonight

    Me and a musical couple from our church will be leading worship at Ypsilanti Free Methodist tonight at 7pm! This will be my third or fourth year doing this event and it’s always been a blessing on me to get to take this group before God. This year they’ve also asked that I speak a…

  • Physical Copies of ToJ on Amazon

    My book A Taste of Jesus is now available on Amazon. Prime users rejoice and save on shipping! And as always, the audiobook and Kindle versions are also available.

  • Sociology & the Cross

    When we look at the society of Jesus’ time, we’re appalled. How on earth could an entire society approve of nailing a man to a cross? How could that kind of atrocity be considered “just another day in the life?” We think that in 21st century we’re more civilized than that and that we would…