Theological Mystery of Words
Once upon a time, when I was only fifteen years old, I boarded a weather-beaten old passenger liner and sailed out from the New...
A Theology of the Ordinary
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life––your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life––and place it...
Is Theology Practical?
This address was delivered at Theology Matters’ first conference on Hilton Head Island, Feb. 19, 2020. I made an off-hand comment to Richard Burnett one...
On Reconciliation – Honoring the Work of Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus . . . has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Eph. 2:...
Jesus Christ is the Life – Part 2
Just how, as Christians, do we receive this life?
Jesus Christ is the Truth – Part 2
Confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life means he is not merely one truth among others. He is the truth by which all others are measured.
Jesus Christ is the Life – Part 1
Jesus offers us life, true life, life that endures, eternal life. And Jesus himself is nothing less than the life.
Jesus Christ is the Truth – Part 1
The real issue is not where we learn more or less about God, but where we learn the one thing necessary, the Truth.
Jesus Christ is the Way – Part 1
When Jesus declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” he declares that the way, truth, and life to which he refers exist only in relation to himself.