Articles
I’ve written about 50 articles for Preaching Today, Leadership Journal, and CT Pastors. Below are a few of my favorites. If you’d like to browse all my articles at their website, click the button below.
10,000 Testimonies from the Catacombs
Beginning about 100 AD, 150,000 poor and powerless Christians were interred in the “sleeping spaces” (dormir) of the Roman catacombs. Christian gravediggers (who were held ...
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‘They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’
There is a motto popular among some activists: “They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” Christians can repurpose that slogan. ...
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Ordinary Pastors
There they are—our forefathers, our kind of people. Ordinary, plain, common. And no matter how good our education, the secret to gospel ministry has never ...
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Ordinary People
I’m often struck by how ordinary church people are. That’s not a put-down. I admire the ingenuity of our disguises.
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Foundational Words
We work as subcontractors, you might say, at a construction site. Maybe that would be clearer if someone stretched a chain-link fence around the church ...
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The Oof of It
Picture a dad stretched out on the living room floor right after dinner, eyes closed, hands behind his head, just relaxing. Then out of nowhere, ...
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