Like I mentioned in my last post, January is when I tend to do some reflecting on the past year. In this post I want to tell you about my favorite book from 2011: Tim Keller’s King’s Cross It’s hard to really articulate how much I’ve appreciated this book. The flow of the book is [...]
I once heard Mark Driscoll explain something that was somewhat eye-opening to me. He said something along the lines of, “Growing up, somewhere between the picture books and flannel graphs, I got the impression that Jesus was a feminine hippie with a lot of hair product. One day, I realized: I don’t have respect for [...]
Dr. Russ Moore of Southern Seminary came to visit our church this week. He gave what was probably one of the top-five best sermons I’ve ever heard. Carve out an hour and check this out:
I put this together for my uncle Jamie’s funeral. Now that they’ve had a memorial for him in California, I figured I’d post it here for anyone interested. We miss you uncle Jamie. Below is the text of the eulogy I gave during his funeral. I would post the video, but I cried a lot [...]
Though I’ve never met him, Tim Keller is one of the most important voices in my life right now. Our pastor often refers to him as ‘Yoda’, and I have to agree. This stood out to me this morning: Imagine sitting down with a sever-year-old and saying to her, “I’d like you to write me [...]
This is the story about one of the pastors at our church and his son.
Matt Papa is one of the worship leaders at our church. He just released a new single called It Is Finished. Put on your headphones, sit back, and meditate on these lyrics: the earth shook and trembled the sun bowed its head the veil of the temple was open for man as Jesus went down [...]
