When I was first saved I soon immersed myself into the Christian subculture. Like so many baby believers, to some degree, I mistook it for sanctification. In...

In Genesis 16, Sarah offers Abraham her servant girl Hagar to bear him a son instead of her. "Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a f...

Death. It is not something people like to think of, less so talk about, until it confronts them. While it may be avoidable in conversation, and even in our t...

In my last blog, I dealt with the conflict between Euodia and Syntyche in Philippians. By taking a closer look at the context and Paul's focus in the letter ...

In my previous blog post, I spoke about the perils of proof texts and the importance of context. So this time around, I thought I would give a fuller exampl...

We live in the era of the minimization of information; the era of the soundbite, the snippet, the meme. We don't have the time to engage in nuance, wrestle w...