So last week, I finally let the rubber hit the road about why I’m so up-in-arms about neo pseudo gnosticism. One of the chief problems I have with it is how it can derail and mess up the hope that we as Christians have for eternal life. There are other…
So last week, I started a new series about something I’m calling neo pseudo gnosticism, a heretical belief that I fear has crept into modern Christianity and has warped the way we view the world around us and even the way we look at ourselves. But before we get into…
Normally, on Mondays, I offer up a few pithy devotional thoughts to help start your week. I won’t say that these are deep thoughts; they’re not, and that’s by design. But for the past week or so, I’ve had a theological splinter stuck in my metaphorical skin, so to speak,…
There’s a funny pattern that emerges in the book of Mark. On three different occasions, Jesus takes a break from His busy miracle-making, teaching-the-crowds schedule to clue the disciples in to what’s going to happen to Him. For example, in Mark 9, it goes like this: They left that place…
Okay, time for a little peek under the hood here at my blog. When I do these Monday-morning devotionals, nine times out of ten I use the pericopes that my denomination, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, uses for worship. Every week, there’s an Old Testament reading, an Epistle reading, a Gospel…
Hey, everybody. Mondays are usually when I do a little devotional thought on my blog. I know that I’ve been a little inconsistent as of late, so I decided to make it up to you. Over the summer, I’ve been doing a sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit,…
In the past few months, I’ve gotten into something that I never thought I would be interested in. I blame my wife. It’s usually her fault when this sort of thing happens. I’ve been watching a lot of cooking shows lately. Like I said, it’s my wife’s fault. She loaded…
A few months ago, I found an interesting article by Rachel Held Evans about the lady described in Proverbs 31. In it, she laments the fact that apparently, in some circles, people hold up the description in Proverbs 31 and use it to say, “SEE!?!? This is what a good…
When I was younger, I was terrified of tornadoes. I don’t know why that was, exactly. I was never actually in one, but I had heard plenty about them. I knew how dangerous they could be. Minnesota is at the northern edge of Tornado Alley, which means that while we…
How do you explain the miraculous things that Jesus did? How do you explain the incredible claims that He made about Himself? That was a question that the people of Jesus’ day and age had to ask and answer. Some of them recognized Him as the long-awaited Messiah, even if…