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  • Baptismal Exhortation: His Blood Be Upon us and Our Children

    Baptismal Exhortation: His Blood Be Upon us and Our Children

    Easter Sunday is the culmination of Holy Week, but in considering the meaning of baptism today, I want us to go back to Jesus’ trial before Pilate. When Jesus was on trial, the crowd cried out, “His blood be on us and on our children.” By that, they meant that they judged Jesus worthy of… Read more

  • The Resurrection and Women Preachers

    The Resurrection and Women Preachers

    Some memes are funny and accurate. Other memes are misleading or even dishonest. There is a meme going around right now that says something like, “In the interest of biblical accuracy, all preaching about the resurrection this Easter Sunday will be done by women.” One does not have to appeal to the more obvious texts… Read more

  • Good Friday Meditation

    Good Friday Meditation

    The Christian message, the Christian story, goes something like this: God came to earth and we killed him. God came to earth in the God-man, Jesus, and we nailed him to a cross. Why? Jesus went around announcing he was God, the Great I AM, who can forgive sins, who was there in the beginning, who… Read more

  • Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Hillsong

    Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Hillsong

    This is a good article, with lessons for the church that apply far beyond Hillsong. When the church puts being cool above being holy, when church leadership is more concerned with relevance than faithfulness, bad things happen. The article might be behind a paywall so here are some key takeaways: “Evangelicals would do well to… Read more

  • Maundy Thursday: Jesus Sets the Standard

    Maundy Thursday: Jesus Sets the Standard

    On Maundy Thursday, Jesus gave his disciples a new command: to love one another as he has loved us. While the command to love had been given in the Old Testament law, Jesus deepens and redefines that law with his own example of love, first in washing the disciples’ feet, then in dying on the… Read more

  • Pride vs Community

    Pride vs Community

    One of the great obstacles to genuine Christian community is pride. We certainly see this with the Pharisees in the gospel accounts. The Pharisees’ self-‐righteousness makes them sectarian and divisive forces within Israel. The same kind of pride can rear its ugly head in the church today. For example, when Christians make too big a deal out… Read more