Holiness Reeducation

My latest podcast is up. It is the sermon I preached this past Sunday, Christ the King Sunday. It is the last sermon of a 5 part series called The American Reality. This really summed up a lot of the series and the innate struggle with being good Americans and being faithful Christians. Unfortunately the […]

The Gospels are full of stories where the power of the Gospel allows people to escape the stigmas society has assigned them. These stigmas marginalize and oppress the people who wear them around like scarlet letters. In the Gospels we find lepers, adulterers, the demon possessed, the mentally ill, the physically ill, those of mixed […]

One of the really hard questions I have been asking myself since Russia is what does poverty look like? Daniel Clark our trip leader kept bringing us back to this question on our journey. Each orphanage we went to had different elements of poverty, but it was hard to remove the lens of my western […]

My latest podcast is up now. It is a sermon from our new preaching series called American Reality: Moving Beyond the Dream. The sermon is an examination of our struggles to try and revive Christendom within America and our need to abandon those dreams and learn to live as exiles. The text is Jeremiah 29, […]

One of the remarkable aspects of being in Russia is the opportunity to immerse yourself in an Orthodox culture. Growing up strictly within evangelicalism, especially fundamentalist evangelicalism, Catholicism seemed a great mystery. The Orthodox world, however, was mysterious far beyond even Catholicism. Through college and seminary I learned about the Orthodox church and have read […]

After a whirlwind 12 days I am happy to be back home and in the company of my lovely family. Big thanks to my incredible wife who held down the fort and took care of the kids while I was off having the time of my life. Over the next days, weeks, and months I […]