Theology That Bites Back
This satiric novel won the Christianity Today Best Fiction Award for 2012, if you can figure that out. It is about a corrupt megachurch pastor who is accused of pretty much the only thing he didn’t do, and about a faithful pastor of a small church across town, who is a reluctant Jonah figure. Called to help, …
A statement of the gospel, that gospel which vanquishes the spirit of accusation.
This is my effort to render the poem in modern English in a way that feels like the Old English. Modern English is a stress-timed language, just as Old English was, and so the rhythms and cadences can work the same way. In addition, Old English poetry reinforced those stresses with alliteration. I tried to …
Anyone who has the misfortune of googling my name will have the experience of discovering a number of interesting things about me, some of them true. Over ten years ago, there was a debate, of the junior high cafeteria food fight variety, involving certain things I was supposed to believe and hold about slavery, race …
As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too. He told the future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his …
The subtitle for this book is descriptive enough: “Sermon Notes on the Book of Romans.” A few years ago, I preached a series of 65 sermons through this magisterial book, and some time after that I put them all together in a big file and went through it all with some heavy grit sandpaper. The …
This book is practical commentary on the Sermon on the Mount. Years ago I preached through the Sermon on the Mount, and just recently went back through my notes and polished them up, and filled in some gaps that had somehow mysteriously appeared. I hope that my debts to Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Studies in the Sermon …
This small book consists of my interactions with a range of unbelievers on a local Moscow list serve. It can be sort of like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but for the most part you should be able to figure out what kinds of things I am responding to.
