Jesus often retreated into the wilderness to pray and be alone with God. For years, I neglected the practice myself, and, in doing so, subconsciously affirmed that I was somehow better than Jesus. I neglected my spiritual life by retreating… Read More »Hiking, Being Comfortable, and the Cross
Scientists have offered several reasons why Zebras have stripes. Leading theories suggest it has something to do with warding off disease-carrying flies, or the number and thickness of stripes could be to help regulate body temperature in more extreme climates… Read More »The Problem with Being a Zebra
Man, can you believe kids these days? I just don’t know what’s gotten into this younger generation. One of the boys at church… I can’t believe this… comes up to the building during the week and helps put together the… Read More »Can You Believe Kids These Days?
Good morning, everyone! As I continue to work towards the release of my book, there are a few steps in the process I’m having to outsource so that I can really make it into something special (stuff like editing, graphic… Read More »Support My New Book
This fall I’ll be publishing my new book How a 25-Year-Old Learned He Wasn’t the Only One Going to Heaven. If you’d like updates, you can follow my blog by entering your email address or using the WordPress app. The… Read More »New Book Coming this Fall
If you’ve read some of my writings about what is typically called the Restoration Movement, you may wonder how I could write this article, but one of the reasons I write so much on the Stone-Campbell movement or the American… Read More »Why I Love the Church of Christ
Laura and I recently began rereading Brian McLaren’s novel A New Kind of Christian. In the introduction, he talks about the process of paradigm change: stability, discontinuity, disembedding, transition, and reformation. As he described what each of these stages meant,… Read More »The Process of Paradigm Change (pt. 1)
Quick crash course on Revelation 1. When was Revelation written?2. When would Revelation be fulfilled?3. Was it fulfilled when John said it would be? 1. When was Revelation written? There are three major positions held among churches of Christ: before… Read More »Quick Crash Course on Revelation (April 18-24, 2021)
The closest background to our passage is in OT descriptions of “the day of the Lord,” which seem to envisage an obscuration that affects the entire world, not just a particular country (see Joel 2:1–2, 10, 30–31; Amos 8:9–10). Marcus,… Read More »The Signs of the Cross (Part 2)
Recently, my friend Dr. William Bell did a video on the signs surrounding the Cross. I haven’t listened to the video yet, but I was talking briefly to Dr. Dallas Burdette, and he suggested I write a few things on… Read More »The Signs of the Cross (Part 1)