Over the past few months, friends have told me that they are reading “Blessed Broken Given” with their small group at church or with a...

What does it mean to be prophetic? The word is thrown around a lot, but depending on which circles you run in, it means something quite...

Earlier this year, Integrity Music release a 5-day devotional that I had written to accompany a wonderful new instrumental album called...

Where do leaders in churches and Christian ministries gain their authority to lead? It is tempting to simply say, ‘From God!’ There is,...

As the buzz would have it, there is much to find troubling about Ridley Scott‘s Exodus: Gods and Kings. Mainstream reviewers are...

What are the repeated critiques you hear about modern worship? It is so noisy. And why is every bridge a monosyllabic chant? (eg....

[NOTE: This is a follow-up piece to my initial response to the reactions to Hillsong’s decision to decline making a public statement on...

So, Hillsong declined to publicly declare a position on ‘LGBT issues’. And the internet was awash with opinions. Some shook their heads...

Every once awhile, I am asked what our liturgy is at New Life Downtown. Our service flow (in general) can be found HERE. But the most...

In Part 1 of this blog series, we said that in order to answer the question of “who the Church is”, we needed to first ask who Jesus is,...

For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: A few posts ago, I started the conversation about what our worship songs communicate about God and why that matters....

To mourn is to protest. It is to say that this should not be. We mourn when we lose a friend in a car accident. We mourn when we lose a...

What does our culture think of evil? Why do we pretend it doesn't exist until it hits us in the face? And what has God done about it? Is...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the previous post, “Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1”, for introductory remarks and points 1-3.] 4. The...

Labels can be useful, but they can often be misleading. So telling you that I am a Charismatic may not be helpful—to you or to...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: As a follow-up to my last post, here is a slightly adapted excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Secondhand Jesus". If you like, you...

The long-standing view of God is that He is an angry school master, ready to bring the full weight of His wrath upon us at the slightest...