Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about the supposed tension between doctrine and mission. Illustrations such as a train have been used to describe the relationship between the two in order to argue that mission should drive the train rather than doctrine.[1] I think it is fair to read these conversations alongside the …
Mere Texas Baptists This semester, I have been leading a group of students through C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity for a class on Christian Apologetics. When Lewis is referring to “mere”, he is playing off of Richard Baxter’s “mere” theology that was meant to describe not a shallow Christian faith, but a richer faith. Over the …
I was preparing for my Old Testament class this past week and I was walking through the creation narrative and I was dwelling on the proto evangelium (first Gospel) in Genesis 3:15. It was then as I kept reading that the Lord revealed something to me that never really dawned on me till recently. The …
In a few weeks, I’ll have the opportunity to share a talk with some youth leaders in Houston on the topic of Identity. As I’ve been preparing to share with them, I’ve thought about how we are currently living in an identity vacuum. We use to be identified by Jesus and what God said about …
#FearGod was trending on Twitter today. As I scrolled through the tweets on the subject, I kept coming across the language that was being used to describe a God that demanded to be feared was toxic and evil. I could not help but shake my head as I read these tweets from mostly women taking …
I was preparing for my Old Testament class this past week and I was walking through the creation narrative and I was dwelling on the proto evangelium (first Gospel) in Genesis 3:15. It was then as I kept reading that the Lord revealed something to me that never really dawned on me till recently. The …
Lately, I’ve been walking through John Mark Comer’s book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. This is my first work to read from JMC. I have found it to be counter cultural and extremely beneficial for my own spiritual formation. I have to be very selective on which books that I get to walk through during …
