Is God’s law a delight, or a drag? You would probably say the answer is a little complicated. Many of us who work hard to remain focused on the gospel as our hope before God have an almost visceral reaction to “the law,” particularly when it is presented as a means of obtaining or maintaining [...]
Depending on the tribe you belong to, the term “pastor/theologian” might be seen either as a redundant, or oxy-moronic expression. Some view the pastor as a practitioner, and the theologian as a theoretician; two separate roles. Others, like those of us in Acts 29, understand the pastor to be a leading theologian among the people [...]
I just started in on Michael Horton’s new book, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World. The Introduction was good enough to pull a few quotes from. Here’s one where Horton explains the gospel in terms of our story, and The Story.
The Good News is not just a series of [...]
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Dear Self,
Take note – your view of Jesus tends to shrink over time. It’s not that your theology itself drifts, but that sometimes you so focus on one aspect of Jesus that you tend to forget the rest. The result is a shrinking Jesus (in your faith). And as your shrinking Jesus becomes small Jesus [...]
I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship, husband to Jen, Dad to Katherine, Elias and Madeline - and the short, bald guy in Starbucks writing in a Moleskine journal.
