“For God Still Loves the World”

“For God Still Loves the World”

I saw that phrase on the December 2020 cover of Christianity Today. A giant, cosmic hand reaches out toward a world wrapped in darkness, drifting alone in the starry expanse. The phrase floats along the curvature of our little planet, printed in letters so tiny you...
2021 Doesn’t Care What You Want

2021 Doesn’t Care What You Want

This is the last Sabbath Thought I’ll post in 2020. Do you know what that means? …Very little, actually. It’s easy to make a big deal about that transition from one calendar year to the next. It feels like such a weighty moment—a new year, another 365 days...
The Secret to a Pure Language

The Secret to a Pure Language

I love words. That’s a good thing for a writer to be able to say, but what I mean is, I love what you can do with words. Here’s an example. If I told you, “Hank gave me five dollars,” what information would that give you? Well, you’d know...
Drunk With Blood, Part Three: Beyond Justice

Drunk With Blood, Part Three: Beyond Justice

Let’s recap what we’ve learned from parts one and two of this series. We know that the nations God sent Israel to annihilate were corrupt in ways we can only begin to imagine, and that they had no intention of changing. We know that sin, unchecked and...