Bible & Theology
Watermelon Patch
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
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Bible & Theology
The Bible and Theology are the things I'm most passionate about and write about the most often.
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There Are Things Worth Getting Divisive About
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
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Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
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
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It Is Always God's Will to Heal
A few people had asked what I meant when I said it is always God's will to heal. If it's always
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Thoughts on Pride 2022
For the first time this June, The Table Church marched in Washington, DC's Pride Parade. My family and I marched alongside our LGBTQ
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On the Fall of Roe
1. If you have received an abortion, no one should ever make you feel shame for that. You are beloved and cherished by God. You
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It's A Sin Problem?
The disciples telling Jesus about 5,000 hungry people— Jesus: “It’s not a food problem, it’s a sin problem.” The centurion asking Jesus
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Prayer Means Action
Everyone should hesitate before they pray for something if they are not willing to take some sort of action to help answer that prayer. If
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Open Communion at The Table
The Table Church practices open Communion, open even to those who don't follow Christianity. When we offer Communion we say, "Anyone who
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Did it make a difference?
(Easter Week Table Church Newsletter) Around Holy Week, that's a question I often find myself thinking about. Each year in the church (for
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How to Edit the Bible Like Jesus
I recently preached on two of Moses’ encounters with God. The first, in Exodus 3, Moses meets God at the burning bush. Moses, anticipating questions
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Exodus 14
Setting aside, briefly, the issue of divine violence in the Old Testament, I want you to notice this brilliant literary touch in Exodus. The book