My son and the repentance of God
I am working at home today and my son came down and asked if he could ask me a question. Sure."I am reading 1 Samuel 15 for Omnibus today and I read that God regr...
Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens
Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team & ST-ECF Explanation: What is that strange arc? While imagin...
I miss the PNW
I could not let this picture go by with out referencing it here. From the September 9, 2009 Astronomy Picture of the Day: Star Trails Over Oregon Credit & C...
Every Person has a Theology
"The question is not whether you have a theology. Every person has a theology. The question is whether your theology is good or bad."—Quoted in various forms by l...
Thief on the Cross
"The thief on the cross repented at the very last, but as a wise Puritan put it, God gave us one last minute conversion in Scripture so that no one would despair,...
Sermons on 1 Thessalonians 1:1–2:8
The gracious folks at Oakridge Community Church in Stillwater, MN, invited me back to preach on two Sundays earlier this month. The two sermons are below. Right-c...
Regarding Chapters and Verses
Gordon Fee writes regarding the chapter break at 1 Thess 2:1:While these aid in "finding" things, they are unfortunate in that they cause people to read the Bible...
The Greatest Story
I grew up escaping life into fiction. I went through a comic book phase, but mostly I read plain old escapist fiction. Starting in 3rd grade I read Narnia over an...
That’s hard to do with a dead imagination.
Andrew Peterson:I remember feeling something when I was a kid. It’s this tickle behind your bellybutton, a sense that you’re brushing up against something magical...