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More Church Notes

If you disobey in the little things, you will disobey in the big things. Faithfulness and patience go together. Unfaithfulness and impatience go together. You cannot be honest with others, including God, if you are dishonest with yourself. It doesn’t take a...

Learning to Walk

When you learn to walk as a little child, you need a lot of help. Someone needs to be there to help you balance and to be sure you don’t get injured. But you also need to be allowed to fall and get back up by yourself, otherwise you’ll never walk properly....

A Little Spiritual Brain Exercise

Sometimes I like to ask spiritual and theological questions that don’t necessarily matter, but are fun to talk about. It often gets some interesting theological discussions going, especially when you get together with pastors, missionaries, or other Bible nerds....

More Soap Opera in the Bible

For the first “episode” I wrote about, see Soap Opera in the Bible. In this one today, we’re in 1 Samuel 25. In context, David had been running away from Saul, who had been trying to kill David out of fear and jealousy. While traveling around in...

Bible Heroes, Bible Failures

A lot of the time we Christians like to talk about the heroes of our faith in the Bible. But really, the Bible isn’t a book full of moral heroes, it’s a book full of moral failures. It’s a book full of moral failures and how God worked on them, with...