10 Things I Learned in New York City (Part 3)

December 14, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

In October I was fortunate to have a month-long sabbatical. I am grateful for the grace that my church gave to me to allow me this time to step away. Part of that time was spent in New York City as part of the pursuit of my Doctor of Ministry. This sabbatical time allowed me […]

10 Things I Learned in New York City (Part 2)

December 3, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

10 Things I Learned in New York City (Part 1)

November 19, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Exchange with Pastor Josh: The Early Church and the Church Today

March 18, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Jesus commanded that we are to “love the Lord your God…with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). It is a command that can be joyfully obeyed especially when done together with other Jesus followers. That is what “The Exchange with Pastor Josh” is all about. The questions and insights that are shared are not from Pastor […]

Book Review: Disappearing Church

August 24, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Sayers, Mark. Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience. Moody Publishers, 2016. In Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience, Sayers seeks to show that the “Western church’s favored strategy of cultural relevance” will not hold up in the “Third Culture” of post-Christianity and must be replaced by strategies that promote resilient gospel-centered, orthodox faith (14). In […]

Book Review: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.

July 10, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Ultimately, Douthat’s solution strikes me as one more version of the resistance that he rightly demonstrates to have failed in the Graham/Shaeffer era.