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August 22, 2022
A Theology of The 100
I love getting into a long series, especially sci-fi dystopias such as The 100. But since I’m also a theologian, I tend to see elements of theology and faith where others might not. As I watch, I interpret. I enjoy, but I also analyze. Presenting my brief analysis here is what I’m calling “A Theology of the […]
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August 6, 2022
Satan’s Identity and MO
Do you know who Satan is? In our day, that question might strike your ears as cultic. “Satan . . . like, as a real being, with a name and everything?” Yes. Our secularized culture says Satan is make-believe. At worst, he’s an idea that gets in the way of our taking responsibility for poor […]
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July 19, 2022
You Are an Immortal Letter
There are billions of intersections in Scripture, places where the lines of two texts cross and offer us critical opportunities for encouragement and growth. The latest intersection the Spirit led me to was wonderfully hopeful (should I expect anything less?). “Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives […]
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June 14, 2022
How Do Hearts Grow?
How do you know your heart is maturing, that you’re developing, that you’re more than just your yesterday-self? Simple question. And maybe there’s a simple answer. In the midst of reaching for biblical definitions of the heart as the seat of human emotion and the hearth of longing, we make the question of maturity overly […]
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May 25, 2022
Morality over Doctrine?
It’s fascinating how much you can learn about secular culture when it’s not trying to express its beliefs. This comes out in films, TV series, and popular fiction, among other places. I guess that’s another piece of support for the argument that we’re most ourselves when no one’s looking. One theme that comes up repeatedly […]
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April 5, 2022
Love Cannot Be ‘This’ for ‘That’
I was reading through a book manuscript the other day, and it was making me think of a previous article I wrote about Job (“Job and the Deadly Spiritual Equation”). The author of this manuscript made a point that, while I already knew it conceptually, still drew me into wonder. Here it is, in my […]
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March 18, 2022
God’s Patterns and Our Problems
God is a pattern-maker; we are pattern seekers. Patterns give us stability in a world that sometimes feels beyond every measure of our control. But patterns are also in place to help us interpret what happens to us. And interpretation is critical. Assigning a God-centered purpose and value (interpretation) to our experiences is what the […]
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March 14, 2022
Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes
Disciplines of a Godly Man is a spiritual classic, and one of the reasons why that’s the case is that it’s so well written. For me, that tends to be the difference between a “good” book and a “great” book. You’ll see some of this in my favorite quotes below. Hughes’s goal is to walk […]
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February 25, 2022
Limitation Leads to Relationships
Limitation is a son of transience. When things are always changing, when waves of time are always lapping at the thin shore of the present, we see how little we’re able to control. We hate this instinctively. And then we draw the false conclusion that limitation is an evil, that we have to wage against […]
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February 11, 2022
What You Gain from Loss
God has created a spiritual kingdom in which subtraction is addition. What is taken from us leads not to poverty, but to riches buried in union with God. Finding those riches, however, is a matter of spiritual digging. It often takes years of sifting through mud and rock. We lose faith and cast down the […]
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