“I believe in God, but I just don’t know if I can trust the God of the Bible. How can a good God have Israel wipe out the Canaanites? Or send people to hell?” I was speaking with an acquaintance at the gym when he asked me a question that many people quietly carry: how... Continue Reading

Consider the words of N.T. Wright: “We are forced to postulate something which will account for the fact that a group of first-century Jews, who had cherished messianic hopes and centered them on Jesus of Nazareth, claimed after his death that he really was the Messiah despite the crushing evidence to the contrary” (Resurrection, 562).... Continue Reading

In the meantime, we can embrace the wait because it offers an invitation to grasp the heart of God. “Love is patient,” Paul penned. To see the essence of patience is to see the essence of love, which is God.   If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,     O Lord, who could stand?... Continue Reading

How will we recognize this King? With much pomp and circumstance? Leading a mighty army? He will come “lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zech. 9:9).Each of the Gospel account carries news of His arrival. Seated on a donkey, palm branches spread before Him, He would enter Jerusalem... Continue Reading

So, what is God asking you to trust Him for that runs completely against your normal experience? Perhaps you cannot imagine victory over a temptation that has taken you down so many times. Perhaps the financial need in front of you and the resources available simply do not add up. Perhaps a marriage is harder... Continue Reading

God is to be feared because of what He can do/what He has done/and what He will (yet) do.  He is to be feared, because we simply cannot know what His sovereign will shall turn out to be–even for each one of us individually–while we are in this world.   I confess, that for a... Continue Reading

Despite the darkness around us – and the darkness still seeming to linger inside us – the greater reality is that the light of God in his Son has shone. And the darkness has not overcome it. And so we have hope.     I came across these lyrics recently: We’re all fighters, holding up... Continue Reading

You could accept this as your “truth”: “I can fly off a ten-story building. You may not think so, but that’s my truth.” Your truth would get you killed. God is truth. Jesus said He was the “way, the truth, and the life” and there is no other (John 14:6). The One who made you,... Continue Reading

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my... Continue Reading

The Gospels consistently describe the resurrected Jesus as at first unrecognisable. Perhaps like seeing an old friend after forty years. Just not the same. The change in Jesus is significant, as we will see.   Jesus’ crucifixion was unjust, violent, shameful. Having obtained Pilate’s permission, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus took Jesus’ crucified body for... Continue Reading