King David’s story is one filled with the faithfulness of YHWH and the triumphs and failures of David’s life. As noted throughout David’s story, his commitment to YHWH marks him as a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Sam 13:14). Despite this title given to him, David is far from perfect. In fact, throughout David’s Read more

Yesterday Landon Schott commented on a blog post I made a year ago about why I believe that the debate around LGBTQ+ self identification among Christians is frivolous and can result in misrepresentation of the gospel. Here is what happened. Mega Church lead pastor of multisite church, Mercy Culture Landon posted on his instagram a Read more

Christ said that blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. I’ve wondered if this was foreshadowing the mourning of his disciples at His crucifixion. I wonder if Mary muttered those words as a prayer after her son was brutally murdered. I wonder if Peter could hear the words echoing as he lamented Read more

On Ash Wednesday this year I felt compelled to make my lenten prayer the Kyrie, a simple prayer that has been prayed by Christians since at least the fifth century. “Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy.” I expected lent to be a long and monotonous season of getting bored of this simple prayer, but I Read more