Archive - One Thing Necessary

July 2025

Why Am I Anxious?

Real talk on the relationship between anxiety and Christian faith

Jul 28 •

Family Redefined

How Jesus overturns our assumptions again

Jul 23 •

Escaping Our Shrunken Worlds

The Truman Show and Ephesians 1

Jul 12 •

June 2025

Jesus Doesn’t Use Fake Plants

I’ve never liked fake plants.

Jun 30 •

Strategies of Grace for Self-Righteous Prosecutors

One of my fellow pastors, Joe Abdelghany, recently preached a powerful sermon on Jesus’s call to take the log out of one’s own eye before seeing clearly…

Jun 16 •

May 2025

Lies Parents Believe

Our oldest turned eighteen last weekend, prompting me to quip to my wife, “We’ve done it.

May 20 •

The Kingdom of God and Expectation Management

Expectations come naturally to humans.

May 6 •

April 2025

Christian Voters Must Be Values Voters

In a recent article for the Dispatch, Michael Wear writes, “Have you noticed that the term ‘values voters’ is essentially absent from national political…

Apr 21 •

Biblical Counseling Isn’t Therapy

“And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all” (1 Thess 5:14).

Apr 9 •

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