This past Friday I walked across the stage, shook the hands of some professors, and celebrated the end of a very long journey. This journey started in the summer of 2007 when I decided to enroll at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies program. Five and a half years later,…
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A Conversation About Holiness
Last week Christianity Today ran an article I wrote reviewing Kevin DeYoung’s book titled The Hole in Our Holiness. Kevin wrote a solid book that I would gladly recommend to others. In fact, both he and I come at the subject from a similar perspective: we have lost our desire to seek after holiness. In…
What You Need: Weakness Over Strength
Humility—It’s the one thing you don’t have if you say you have it. I think one of the reasons Paul made such a strong emphasis on boasting about his weakness was because of the incredible amount of life change he was seeing happen through his ministry. If Paul was a pastor today he would be…
A Better Formula
There’s been an ongoing debate I’ve been watching about whether creativity and content creation can follow a formula. I’ve been mulling over this and finally have an answer. Earlier this week I got to spend time with a writer/author friend of mine who was speaking at a local college. And during our conversation the answer…
Is Life About You or Others?
A fairly common message in Christian circles today is captured in this statement: Life is not a story about you. In principle, I fully agree with this. I am an inherently selfish person who worries first about my own needs and desires, before I think about others. But here’s the problem… Life is about you.…
How to Live the Christian Life
I think most of us here know how to become a Christian. You know that to become a Christian, an encounter with Christ must take place, but so many do not know how to live the Christian life. Now, first of all, what is a Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian?…