Though I have a heart to care for God’s people, it’s not much of a surprise that I am drawn to the scholarly side of pastoral work. Working through a text critical problem in Romans on a Friday night? I’m there, every time.

ChatGPT, like any tool, can be used well or poorly. Getting the engine to write your papers is using it poorly; I think I use it well. At least, I have standards I’m careful to keep to…

Anyone who has followed my podcast and poked around my website knows that I’ve done an abysmal job at updating my blog.

I was shocked after discovering that WebMD is filled with warning signs for conditions like ADHD, heart disease, and even multiple sclerosis — but nothing for the great scourge of our day: Reformed theology.

The apostle John is one letter from heresy.

I know it makes me a nerd, but I can’t help loving my Greek class. Beginner Greek? Now that was a slog. But after 7 months, I’ve reached the golden fields of Intermediate Greek. Yes, the grammar has gotten more complicated. But it’s no longer only grammar.

You know Christianity and science are incompatible. Everybody knows this. It’s one of three things we all come out of the womb knowing, like how coffee should only be drunk black, and your bed is cosier when it rains.

Many people are disappointed in me. I think that’s a test from God; I had lessons recently on not caring so much about what people think of me, so I should have been expecting this. (That’s the trouble with his tests though —

Most writing is awful and boring. (No, those adjectives aren’t the same thing.) But some authors excavate trenches in your mind — foxhole paragraphs where their voice takes cover from the drudgery firing all around you. You can’t dislodge them.

Many of us have heard it said that the gospel is for the unsaved and the saved. It sounds self-explanatory: of course, it is for believers. We had to believe the gospel to be saved!