Twelve Thrones: The Promise Jesus Made That Cannot Be Spiritualized Away
Jesus promised twelve men twelve thrones over twelve tribes. Count the furniture, then decide what kind of kingdom He was […]
Eschatology
Doctrine
I Change Not: The Verses Where God Repents, and the Doctrine They Do Not Break
God says He does not repent. Then four chapters later He repents. Both are true, and the answer is not
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
I Still Am: The Confession You Keep Waiting to Make in Past Tense
Stage One · Exposure — you are not waiting for courage. You are waiting for a clean week. You have
Apologetics
The Spirit Moved, the Word Spoke: Creation Was Never a Solo Act
Genesis gives three divine actors in three verses. What the triune doctrine of creation answers in the Nicaea objection and in deism, and which argument we should stop using.
Eschatology
Before Her Travail: The Nation Isaiah Said Would Be Born in a Day
Isaiah 66 asks a question with no precedent: shall a nation be born at once? A careful walk through the strange birth order of verses 7 through 9 and what the chapter actually promises next.
Bible Exposition
A Strong Hold in the Day of Trouble: A Verse-by-Verse Walk Through Nahum 1
Nahum means comfort, and his first chapter is almost all wrath. Verse by verse through Nahum 1, where the terror of God from outside is shelter from inside.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
Aprons of Fig Leaves: What You Sewed to Cover What You Already Saw
You already know. The hard part of Stage One is not seeing the thing clearly. It is putting down the respectable covering you sewed over it.
Apologetics
They Did It in His Name: The Body-Count Argument, Honestly Answered
Religion poisons everything is the one New Atheist charge that lands. Concede the crimes, then ask what the accusation is standing on.
Eschatology
Run To and Fro: The Verse That Was Never About Airplanes
Daniel 12:4 gets quoted at jets and the internet. Follow the idiom through the rest of Scripture and the verse turns out to be about a sealed book and who gets to read it.
Gospel Foundations
One Word Is Wages. The Other Is a Gift. Everything Turns on That.
Paul could have written that the wages of sin is death and the wages of righteousness is life. He deliberately broke his own sentence, and the break is the gospel.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
He Was Not Ashamed of My Chain: What It Costs to Stand Beside a Man the Room Wrote Off
Everyone in Asia had a good reason to stop showing up. One man went looking for Paul in Rome until he found him, and Paul wrote his name down.
Apologetics
Then What Is a Kidney For? The Word Biology Cannot Stop Using
Materialism says nothing is for anything. Then it hands you a textbook that cannot be written without the word. Open
Eschatology
They Died in Faith: What If He Does Not Come in Your Lifetime?
The question people are too embarrassed to ask at a prophecy conference A woman in her seventies asked it in
Apologetics
If Christianity Is True, Why Cannot Christians Agree?
An honest answer to the objection that Christianity cannot be true because Christians cannot agree It usually arrives as a
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
He Shook Himself as at Other Times: Why Drift Never Feels Like Drift
Stage Five · Legacy — the drift you can feel is never the one that ruins you There is a
Apologetics
He Named Them All, and None of Them Was Like Him: The Scene Theistic Evolution Has to Explain
Apologetics · Creation and Science — a short scene in Genesis 2 that every reading of origins has to account
Eschatology
The Elements Shall Melt: What Peter Does With a Universe That Does Not Last
Eschatology — Peter does not end the chapter with a chart. He ends it with a question about you. Most
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation
The Servant Who Saved the General: Why God Keeps Sending Correction From Below
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation — the counsel God sends is rarely the counsel you would have hired There is a
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
Ninety Seconds Is Not Nothing: The Anchor You Skip Because You Cannot Do It Right
Stage Five · Legacy — the anchor you skipped was not too small. It was the only one you had.
Apologetics
Seventy-Five Thousand Generations: What the Longest Evolution Experiment Actually Produced
Darwinism finally got a laboratory test — twelve populations, thirty-five years, seventy-five thousand generations. Here is the result sheet, read without overstatement in either direction.