The older I get, the more consumed I become with this person, Jesus. The smarter I get, the more confused and awestruck I become with the incarnation. So let me share a few things in answer to the most important question we can ask: Who is Jesus?
Read moreOn Devotionals, or What it Means to be Devoted
When I was young I used to pray for God to rescue me from the boredom of doing my devotions. All those Thees and Thous and henceforths (I grew up on the KJV) was like pouring water on the tiny flame of my faith. So I lowered my shouldered and repeated the words fake it ‘till you make it, fake it ‘till you make it.
Read moreThe End of the American Dream
Being an American is a lot like being stranded on an island, but very few of us realize it. We've come to see the island as our home, and we don't remember the way things used to be...
Read moreOn Shooting the Messenger of Social Media
Social media is phenomenal. It connects us with our best friends about all the things we find important. It’s like a group forum where we share our lives together...Only, in reality, it's not all that phenomenal.
Read morePlanes, Graves, and Art: How an Airshow Rocked My World
I know that airplanes make men fly—I guess I've always known that—but I'm just now realizing how significant that is....
Read moreLess Sometimes is More: How Chronic Fatigue Saved Me From My Achievement Addiction
Probably the most depressing thing about life is that no matter how hard you work, you'll never do enough....
Read moreChristianity is for Losers...Sort of
Back in April, the Guardian ran a piece by Giles Fraser entitled "Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers." This is my response.
Read moreJob 18, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Bildad begins his response within the second (modernistic) round of debate, appealing, as always, to nature for his reason.
Read moreWhat is the Gospel?
We Americans have come to think the Gospel is all about us and our personal relationships with God, but it isn't. It's something much more--more big, more powerful, and so much more glorious.
Read moreI Just Don't Feel Like That's Right, You Know?
We often mistake passivity for humility and passion for arrogance, and since our culture idolizes relativism, our only option is to back down. Or is it?
Read moreA Light for When All Other Lights Go Out, An Exposition of 2 Pet 1:19
As I was reading through 2 Peter, this verse jumped out and mugged me. Because who knew the Bible read like The Lord of the Rings? And, more specifically, who knew a fisherman could write like this?
Read moreA Theology of the Will of God
The will of God connects His omnipotence to the created world in His providence, but it's no simple thing.
Read moreEvil is (Not) as Evil Does
We often just want a tidy answer/justification for the existence of evil, but it's just not that simple. I think answers can be found, but maybe not as you'd expect.
Read moreWhat Has Jerusalem to Do With Athens?
"What has Jerusalem to do with Athens, the Church with the Academy, the Christian with the heretic?" Tertullian asked this question in c. 200 AD, and it still plagues us, even today.
Read moreBy Which I'm Fascinated with Humanness
Being a human is a really weird thing. But I don’t think we get that....
Read moreThe Stranger by Albert Camus
This is, to my mind, one of the most far-reaching books that is uncannily relevant to our culture, and also artistically a masterpiece. It's one of my favorites.
Read moreAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd
Albert Camus is one those philosophers who is close to my heart because he helped me see myself more clearly and thereby helped me get out of a very dark place.
Read moreAlbert Camus
I usually don’t read multiple biographies about one person in preparation for these blog posts, but with Albert Camus, I did.
Read moreJob 17, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Job continues his defense, appealing to a downpayment that he doesn't have, wishing for a way to legitimately prove his innocence before God and man.
Read moreThe Sovereignty of God on Display in Deuteronomy
Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal, the place where Moses preached the book of Deuteronomy (Source).
In Deuteronomy God is center-stage...The purpose of the book is to put God on a pedestal to be examined next to every other ancient near-eastern god, and so in Deuteronomy we find some of the most powerful theologies about God and His sovereignty.
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