WOMEN’S INTUITION

April 20, 2025
Our Lord Jesus Christ capped His superlative life and sacrificial death with a surprising resurrection. And it was women’s intuition, not men’s, that perceived the full meaning of the gospel and began to broadcast it to others.

A FACE IN THE CROWD

April 13, 2025
Only the one, true, triune, and living God is to be worshipped in the manner in which Jesus was exalted on Palm Sunday. The people cushioned His saddle and lined the roadway with the clothes off their backs (and as John’s Gospel tells us, leaves from palm trees). They praised Him and called Him King.

ORDINATION SERVICE FOR CADE

February 23, 2025
Dear Cade, Instead of preaching at your ordination service, I thought I’d write you this letter instead.  I wish someone had written one like it to me at my ordination.  Things may not have turned out differently, but at least I would have been forewarned.

MARY’S SONG OF ADVENT

December 22, 2024
Mary’s song is a theological song. It sings of who God is and what He is like. “Magnify” literally means to greatly illumine, or shine the brightest spotlight.  As she offers this song, Mary does not put this spotlight upon herself, but upon her God.

THE GIFT GIVER

December 8, 2024
Advent and Christmas are seasonally intertwined. Advent is the deeply religious celebration of the first coming of Jesus Christ, with a view towards the second.

ADVENT, NOW AND THEN

December 1, 2024
Now, Christ has paid the price to redeem sinners, and we are all sinners. Now, faith is gift from God that makes a permanent transformation in a person’s life. Now, understand those who have truly drawn near to Jesus will be found, now, in God’s word and in Christ’s church. Those in Christ, now, will be ready when Christ comes again, then.

JUDAS’ EXCUSES

March 24, 2024
Admittedly, the Scriptures do not have a great deal to say about Judas. What we do find is not flattering. His dastardly deed is predicted by the minor prophet Zechariah (ref. 11:12-13), then the four Gospel writers bring him into low light.