by Bro. Michael | Jun 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Excerpted from “Kansas and Nepal: A Response to Flat Earth Sexuality.” When it comes to the main course of a Monday night family dinner, one might have trouble identifying the type of food. It has noodles. Is it pasta? It has beef. Is it a steak? It has...
by Bro. Michael | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Perhaps this is your god. Your god loves you unconditionally. He’s all about you. Of course, he just loves everybody that way, no matter who they are. He’s colorblind. Your god is pleased with whatever time you will give him, whatever gifts you offer him and whatever...
by Bro. Michael | Mar 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Many believers agonize over false teaching found in otherwise faithful teachers. What should our response sound like, look like? Polemics is hard. Polemics is also necessary (Acts 20:28-30; Jude). There may be a time to cast an author’s books into the fire, to...
by Bro. Michael | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here are some leftovers from Sunday morning: 15 times a day, dozens more when I spend the day at home, I instruct my children to say, “Yes, Ma’am” to their mother and “Yes, Sir” to me. These are the only appropriate responses to...
by Bro. Michael | Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
What is often obscured from view by the fervent activity and heated debate about social justice is that there will be no righteous community unless Christ reigns there, for He reigns by God’s righteous covenant. It is only at Christ’s table, eating the bread and...
by Bro. Michael | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The more we look at Christ in His Word the more we will look like Him in this world.” That’s what I meant to say, and it would have been a great little ditty to write down in the margins next to 2 Corinthians 3:18. It is entirely likely I got this...