The Resurrection of My Ears

One of my greatest fears is losing my hearing. I am a musician, a music composer, and a live sound engineer. Both by hobby and trade, my ears are needed at a high level of precision and health. I test my hearing sometimes with a tone generator and am dismayed to find the frequencies above Read More …

The Glad News of Deliverance: My Testimony of How God Saved Me

This is the story of how I once was a hopeless enemy of God, but God in his power and grace forgave my sins and delivered me from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of the Son he loves. If you are a brother or sister in the Lord reading this, I hope you Read More …

Life After Graduation

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I graduated. Here’s how my life is looking now: ✅ Sins forgiven through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross✅ Adopted into the family of God as his son✅ Sealed for redemption by the Holy Spirit✅ My hope stored up in heaven Read More …

Homilies for My Heart After Wrecking My Car

^ Yup, that car. The one I got shortly after that video. It’s sitting in a tow yard now after an accident last night, probably totaled. Thankfully no injuries to myself (that I know of) or others, and no other vehicles were damaged. Still, a frightening, flustering experience to wreck in a violent spin across Read More …

When Christians Disagree: How to Respond Biblically

This is the outline from a teaching I gave at church a few weeks ago (Sept 1st). This is basically a combination and re-working of this post and this post. When Christians Disagree: How to Respond Biblically 2 Peter 3:15-16: There is a Wrong Way to Interpret the Bible Context of 2 Peter Warning against Read More …

Romans 6 – Forgiven and Free: Three motivations to keep battling our sin even though our sin has already been forgiven

This is the outline from a teaching I gave on Sunday a few weeks ago (Aug 25th) on Romans 6. This is just an outline, not a full manuscript. But I added a few extra sentences to fill it out a little. I recommend reading Romans 6 first and then going through the outline with Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: The Reliability of the Gospels

Click here for more posts in this series. This was the last undergrad research paper I wrote. I think it was one of my best papers, and it is certainly one of my favorites. For the foreseeable future, this will be the last paper I share in this series. Thanks for reading! The Reliability of Read More …

Psalm 77 — Finding Relief in the Lord in a Season of Distress

This is the outline from a teaching I gave this past Sunday on Psalm 77. This is just an outline, not a full manuscript. But I added a few extra paragraphs and sentences to fill it out a little. I recommend reading Psalm 77:1-20 first and then going through the outline with the psalm open Read More …