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Image of God Series Part 2: Mankind Is a Bunch of Statues, and Other Odd Things from the Ancient World

As exemplified in the Hadad-Yithʿi bilingual inscription discussed in part one of this series, it is difficult to grasp how the image of god would . . .

The Power of Narrative Series Part 1: We Are Storied Creatures

A few years ago a friend of mine was at a crossroads and reached out for help. His formative years were spent in an insecure . . .

Weakness Series Part 4: Adversity and the Embrace of Weakness

Our world is captivated by success. The cult of celebrity. Reality TV. The pursuit of wealth, status, and power. Materialism. Ladder climbing. Most kids now . . .

Image of God Series Part 1: How the Ancients Understood “Image of God”

How many of us could confidently answer the question, “What does it mean to be made in the image of God?” If you’re not raising . . .

The Confident Embrace

“A giant statue of a king on his throne . . . sort of like Zeus.” I walked down to a small lake and found . . .

Weakness Series Part 3: Toward a Theology of Weakness

The theology of weakness is threaded from Genesis to Revelation.2 It is found in its most developed form in the Pauline epistles and peaks in . . .

Weakness Series Part 2: Aversion To Weakness

Human beings have an innate attraction to strength and corresponding prejudice against weakness. Though our views of what constitutes strength or weakness are culturally bound, . . .

Epidemic of Loneliness Series Part 1: It Is Not Good for Us To Be Alone

In the spring of 2004 during my freshman year of college, I sat on the bottom bunk inside a friend’s dorm room scratching my head. . . .

Weakness Series Part 1: Embracing Weakness

The Church is Christ’s body, his beloved bride, and chosen instrument for ministering to the world. Local churches are supposed to be “kingdom outposts”  intended . . .

Emotion Series Part 2: Does God Have Emotion?

My earliest memories of God centered around a small Methodist church located in a tiny north Mississippi town my mother’s family had faithfully attended since . . .

Defining Discipleship: Asking the Right Questions

A few years ago, my roommate and I decided we wanted to road trip with the greatest dog in all of God’s creation—Corrie the German . . .

God is Love Series Part 5: The Wrath of God

As we bring this series to a close, it is imperative we address what is for many the elephant in the room, so to speak. . . .

Introduction to God & the Brain

“Fake joy.” Those words hung in the room as the young man sat quietly, working through the realization that he had been conditioned over time . . .

God is Love Series Part 4: The Controlling Center of All True Theology

As we’ve seen in this series, love as the controlling center of theology traditionally has either been neglected or ignored.1 But it hasn’t always been . . .

The Power of Narrative Series Part 2: How Did We Get Here? Understanding the Story We Tell Ourselves

Generally speaking, the Reformation of the sixteenth century stirred up quite a bit of religious vigor that went far in reshaping the religious (and political) . . .

God is Love Series Part 3: The Essence of God

I have had twelve years of formal theological training. For the vast majority of those years, I considered the love of God as a moral . . .

Emotion Series Part 1: What Is Emotion & Why Should I Care? 

“Emotion.” For some, even saying or hearing the word activates . . . emotion. But what is it? Or perhaps the question is, “What are . . .

God is Love Series Part 2: It Matters Where We Begin

As we saw in part one of this series, not every theologian begins from the same theological starting point.1 Different historical and cultural contexts have . . .

God is Love Series Part 1: Love Misunderstood

I’ve always been fascinated by the way John begins the first of his short letters: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, . . .

Epidemic of Loneliness Series Part 2: God Gives Us One Another

In May of 1999, a historic F5 tornado ripped through my neighborhood destroying homes and disrupting lives. Just hours before the storm turned my hometown . . .