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My Foreword to Uni’s New Book
When I released my first book, A Taste of Jesus, my friend and fellow pastor Myisha “Uni” Cunningham was kind enough to write the foreword. Now I’ve been given the chance to return the favor by writing the foreword for her new book, Wrestling With God: The Messy Battle, which was just released on Kindle.…
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A Quiet Place 2 in a Quiet Theater, Too
We saw A Quiet Place 2 opening night! In this episode we chat about how much we enjoyed it and then talk a bit about themes like hope, aliens, and the apocalyptic.
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God as Abba, Patēr
Throughout the Old Testament there are many different names given to God, the most popular being Yahweh or “LORD” (used 6,800 times) followed by Elohim or “God” (used 2,500 times). But Jesus liked to use the word Patēr or “Father” in reference to God, which as R.T. France points out, “was distinctive of him, not…
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Happy Birthday Beckett
They say you’ll never forget the day your child was born and they’re right. I still remember 8 years ago today, that massive, purple kid being dropped into my arms and quietly staring at me in the waiting room, trying to figure out what the heck I was. I remember talking to him as I…
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Camera Obscura, Stars and the Gospel
I once brought the youth group into my office, drilled a hole through the wall where I knew an old small window was hiding, and turned off the lights. If it was bright enough outside, I knew that once our eyes adjusted, we would find a movie of the outside world being projected onto my…
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A Church Like Nintendo
In Romans 2, Paul calls attention to how God-followers have always said one thing and done another, and for that reason the world has made fun of God. How have we been bad witnesses to the character of God today? How did we witness to Jesus throughout the pandemic? In a lot of negative ways…
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Prophetic Promises at the Final Hour
In this episode, another seemingly uneventful Bible story ends up playing a bigger role than we first thought. As Sarah passes away, we see how her death makes way for the promises of God.
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Giant Lizard VS Giant Monkey
Let’s talk about the latest movie in the monsterverse, “Godzilla VS Kong,” which, believe it or not, leads us into some actual conversations about the Bible. I dive into my book “Kaiju of Biblical Proportions” and talk about some of the giant monsters found in the Scriptures, who they are, and what they mean.
