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March 18, 2023
The Platform Problem
When Little Writers Are Pushed toward Big Babel Even people who have never read the Bible are familiar with the word “Babel,” and many have heard the story from Genesis 11. The CliffsNotes version goes something like this: long ago, people wanted to “make a name for themselves,” and so they decided to build a […]
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February 24, 2023
What Is Identity?
The simplest questions have the deepest answers. And we’re at a stage in human history when enough thought lies behind us and around us that we feel paralyzed by all the perspectives. But thank goodness: Scripture offers us answers that don’t sacrifice depth for clarity. That doesn’t mean, however, that we’ll attain a God’s-eye view […]
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January 5, 2023
Hearing God’s Voice throughout the Day
Buried in our bones is a yearning for God, a magnetic pull deep in our chest cavity, calling our core into the mysterious Maker of time, color, and light. We can ignore the yearning. We can try to satisfy it with a thousand idols (and we do). We can focus all our attention on breakfast […]
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December 9, 2022
The God of Light
“The Father of lights”—that is your name, A blinding brilliance among heavenly hosts, For even angels with wings of flame Can’t stare at Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Who is God? No question could run deeper, span wider, or coast longer on the words of men. There’s a rich deposit in Scripture of proper names […]
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November 18, 2022
What Does It Mean to Bear God’s Image?
In my latest book project, I’ve been studying and writing about how Jesus saw people. Jesus perceived a light in others (Matt. 9:10-13)—even in the darkest characters—that he went to brighten. He saw something in them worth redeeming. What was it? The short answer is the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). A Dense but Pressing Question But what does […]
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November 7, 2022
When Does Anxiety Become a Sin?
As someone who struggles with anxiety and has written much on the topic, I get this question a lot. It’s a good one, and I want to set out an answer to it that I believe is biblical and sensitive to sufferers. The difficulty is in giving such a personal question a general response. So, […]
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October 4, 2022
Seasons of Sorrow by Tim Challies
We long for suffering to last only for a second, a minute, an hour at most. No matter how unrealistic the expectation, we prolong it. But the truth is that deep suffering lasts days, weeks, months, seasons, even years. The longer we live, the more acquainted we become with it. And how we meet it […]
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October 3, 2022
Reaping God’s Presence
Everyone’s a farmer. We’re always sowing and reaping, planting and harvesting, putting down seeds and taking up crops. We just do so with our thoughts, words, and actions. That was Paul’s sentiment in Galatians 6:7-9. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to […]
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September 26, 2022
A Theology of Stranger Things
Some people think theology is only written by theologians. It’s not. In fact, it’s written by everyone. I’ve talked about this in another post, where I unpack a theology of The 100, a dystopian sci-fi series. Here’s the short version: everyone has assumptions about three critical things: who God is, who we are, and what […]
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September 23, 2022
Satan’s Great Lie and Our Relationships
Lies always lead us places. We might think of them as mere tricks, but they’re more than that. They are paths. Paths always take us somewhere. And if Satan’s great lie is that God isn’t always and everywhere present, where is that taking us in our relationships? Identity and Presence Satan’s great lie has a […]
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