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.

Awe

Our challenge is to preach on such texts so that people not only understand them, but their eyes go wide and their hearts leap. Preachers ...
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The Hard Part of Service

There is only one good thing that humans can do that Almighty God cannot: obey. But obeying God does not come naturally to any human ...
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So… So Human

It’s a wonder to read that Jesus took on humanity when we ourselves, blessed with humanness since birth, are so reluctant to own it. Pastors ...
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‘Taking the Very Nature of a Servant’

The Son of God discerned what so often escapes us—that for the sake of love, we can give up our rights and privileges without losing ...
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Check Under the Carpet

In 1998 I arrived at a deeply damaged congregation. I’ll spare you the details, but they were defeated and demoralized. So much had gone wrong ...
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When the Commander Appears

Sometimes, we feel so lonely, so solitary, as we survey some foreboding Jericho blocking our way, but it is never so. Christ has promised to ...
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