The Gospel and the Christian Life

Pray for your pastor. Those four little words may not currently be on your radar, I pray they will be by the time you're done reading this. Pastoral ministry is difficult and demanding work. The pastor is expected to be on call 24/7, preach one to three messages a...

Since graduating seminary in May 2012 with my Mdiv, a lot has happened in my life. At the top of that list is the return of my father into my life after a long absence. I discovered that Dad has frontal temporal dementia, which is leading to a gradual erosion of his...

Thankfulness springs from the heart that has been captivated by the grace of God and ravished by a delight in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That sentence may be a mouthful, but it encapsulates what the Lord has recently been teaching me. In my flesh, I often...

It’s been almost a year now since I got a phone call from my older brother telling me that my dad was now back in my life. In that year, my dad and I regularly chat on the phone, and I’ve gone to see him a few times in Seattle. The past year has been a world-wind of...

The Christian life is the life of faith. Faith is the issue on which the matter of salvation depends; it is the key that turns the lock on the door to eternal life. Faith is the channel by which Christians receive the benefits of Christ’s saving work; it is the cup...

Writing has long been a passion of mine. I first fell in love with writing as a teenager. Since that time, writing has become one of the chief ways of growing in grace for me. Some of the greatest thinkers of human history were recognized as great writers. They wrote...