Someone on my Facebook was sealioning me about the trustworthiness of Scripture. While I usually don't find such back-and-forth all that helpful, it ended up being a useful exercise in explaining some of the ways I understand how the Bible works. Do you claim to believe Christ and
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Did anyone else grow up with the poisoned watermelon patch metaphor for the Bible? Imagine a watermelon patch with 66 pumpkins. One night, an enemy comes in and injects one of the watermelons with deadly poison. He posts a sign that says, "One of the watermelons, but I won&
Over the past couple of months, I’ve had the joy of leading a Bible study on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. We are a couple of chapters in now, and here’s my main takeaway so far: There are things worth getting divisive about. The central conflict at
Something I wrestle with constantly as a pastor of a progressive/inclusive church is the need for "outreach" or "marketing" or whatever it is we're supposed to call it. On the one hand, it feels really slimy and sleazy to me. Every time I
Mark 3:28-30 and its similar passages in Matthew and Luke are pretty often misread. People misread it as, "God is physically incapable of forgiving someone who has blasphemed the Holy Spirit." But that's not what it says at all. It says, "Whoever blasphemes against
Nine months ago, in November 2021, we announced the beginning of a courtship between Resurrection City DC and The Table Church. As a refresher, Resurrection City DC is a church started by Pastor Tonetta and a team of others in 2019. When we had the privilege of hiring Tonetta as
A few people had asked what I meant when I said it is always God's will to heal. If it's always God's will to heal, why do people not always get well? The alternative, however, is not knowing if God wants to heal or
I recently heard that a few folks at my former church in Iowa felt like I duped them. The claim is that for the ten years I pastored at Good News Community Church, I was an occasionally-provocative-but-mostly-biblically-faithful pastor and teacher. But then, when I moved to DC, my "true
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