Category: Clergy

  • April 17, 2024
    SAVED TO COMMUNITY In God’s economy, we are saved to community. We not only need to confess, but we need…

  • April 10, 2024
    AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…

  • April 5, 2024
    What if God knew the nature of humanity and planned for it in God’s redemptive design from the beginning? Assume…

  • March 27, 2024
    THE FUTURE OF DENOMINATIONS I’d like to  share some work I’d done on where denominations are headed.What will they look…

  • March 20, 2024
    RACISM AND PRIVILEGE  How does the Christian church respond to the systemic racism that plagues our society?  How do we…

  • March 13, 2024
    A FRESH BEGINNING I  think one of the paralyzing features of modern Christianity in addressing racism is its inability to…

  • March 8, 2024
    GOD IS NOT DEFEATED BY RACISM What we discover with the cross is that God is not only not defeated…

  • February 23, 2024
    Excerpt from recently published "Hospitality for Alien Strangers" As Derek left, he took a short walk through the city park.…

  • February 8, 2024
    We live in a world that wants a theology of comfort and we are inspired by a Gospel that offers…

  • January 23, 2024
    RACISM AND THE WHITE CHURCH  Most White individuals, White congregations do not normally think of themselves as white. Unless the…