You can tell how important something is to God by how often it’s talked about in the Bible. Familiar themes that reoccur in the Bible include love, grace, mercy, justice, kindness, the power of God, sin in humanity, and salvation. One...
Living in Haiti, I’ve learned that culture eats strategy for breakfast. It’s my job as the President of Emmaus Biblical Seminary to strategically plan for the short term and long term future of the school. My team and I regularly...
There is an interesting story in John 12 that tells about a woman named Mary who anoints Jesus one week before his crucifixion. The story says that Mary pours expensive perfume on Jesus’s feet (and other versions of the story include...
If you’re anything like me, when someone criticizes you or confronts you, you take on a defensive posture. That sort of reaction, as we all know, merely drives our heels more deeply into the ground of our stubbornness and pride—moving us away...
Why did Jesus have to die the way that he did? We know why Jesus died. He died for political reasons. He was thought to be a potentially threatening freedom fighter for the Jews and the Kingdom of God. Anyone who hints at challenging Rome ended up...
In this post, I wrote about Jesus needing to correct people’s misconceptions about the Kingdom of God. I said that he did so by comparing the Kingdom to both a mustard seed and leaven. I want to add to this. Jesus was doing this same thing...
One the problems that Jesus faced during his ministry on earth was people’s misconception of the Kingdom of God. They had certain expectations as to what the Kingdom of God would be like, but they were wrong. This is why Jesus spent much of...
Every family has a junk drawer. The junk drawer is home to the scissors, Scotch tape, postage stamps, dried up pens, dull pencils, rubber bands, fingernail clippers, paperclips, Post-its, the eyeglass repair kit, and of course, the phone charger. I...
During the season of Lent, we should be praying more. Many people are intimidated by prayer because they have never been taught how to pray. Most people know that praying means talking to God, but strangely enough, it is very seldom that people are...
I’m a terrible golfer, but I go golfing anyway. Occasionally I’ll even go golfing alone, which I enjoy. When golfing alone, I’ll often get paired up with other players to speed up the pace of play when the course is crowded...