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Teaching Justification to Students
Posted on September 28, 2022 1 Comment
I wrote this article for Rooted as a summary and lead up to the workshop I will be teaching at their national conference the end of next week. This year’s conference will be in Kansas City and the theme is: “Living Hope: A Walk Through 1 Peter.” If you’ll be there, I would love to […]
Learning to Lament — Part 3
Posted on September 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
This post is the third of three on biblical lament. You can read the first here and the second here. Also, if you’re interested in digging deeper into the topic of lament, I recommend checking out Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop. An Exposition of Psalms 42-43 Psalms 42-43 […]
Learning to Lament — Part 2
Posted on September 13, 2022 1 Comment
This post is the second of three on biblical lament. You can read the first here. Also, if you’re interested in digging deeper into the topic of lament, I recommend checking out Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop. The Shape of Biblical Lament While there are many different types […]
Learning to Lament — Part 1
Posted on September 11, 2022 2 Comments
In the next series of posts, I’ll be sharing an essay I wrote several years ago about biblical lament. I recently taught on this subject again and, upon revisiting this essay, thought it would be worth sharing here. That being said, since I wrote this an excellent book on this topic was released by Mark […]
Life Update and Transition
Posted on August 31, 2022 Leave a Comment
As many of you may know, my family recently made a big life transition! After seven years of living and serving in St. Louis, I accepted a new pastoral call at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and we moved to town the first week of August. The last time we moved we only had […]
Holy Week Posts
Posted on April 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
In 2020 and 2021 I wrote a series of Holy Week posts for each day of the week. As we enter into Holy Week 2022, I thought I might share them again. The intent is for them to be used as devotional readings for each day of the week. You can click the links below […]
“Is Justification Relevant to Youth Ministry?” An Interview with Modern Reformation
Posted on April 8, 2022 1 Comment
Recently, I was interviewed by the folks at Modern Reformation about my new book on Justification and the doctrine’s significance for youth ministry and reaching the next generation with the gospel of Jesus. Here’s a key quote from the interview: “We can only offer our youth the gospel rest of being justified in Christ if […]
Our Teenagers Are Longing for Jesus
Posted on March 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
I wrote this article for Rooted as part of their series of posts through the book of 1 Peter leading up to their national conference in October. This year’s theme is: “Living Hope: A Walk Through 1 Peter.” Here’s the lead-in: “Whether they realize it or not, the teenagers we love are aching for Jesus […]
Sermon: “Known by Jesus”
Posted on March 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
This past weekend I had the opportunity to serve as the speaker and preacher for Disciple Now (DNOW) weekend at First Presbyterian Church — Rome, GA (EPC). DNOW’s are evangelistically-oriented youth conferences, where students are encouraged to invite their unbelieving and unchurched friends. It was encouraging to see how not only the youth group at […]
Top Ten Books on Justification
Posted on January 26, 2022 Leave a Comment
As part of promoting my new book on Justification, Reformed Youth Ministries (RYM) asked me for my top ten list of books on the doctrine of Justification. My book is intended to be an introduction to the topic, so these are couple other places to go if you want to dig deeper. That’s the beauty […]
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