[A version of this post originally appeared in my weekly newsletter where I tell a funny story with a spiritual point. Sign up here.] I really hate the phrase “it’s like riding a bike” because, for all intents and purposes, I can’t actually ride a bi...

Before tempering out in my later college years, I was a very angry and arrogant person. I had an ax to grind, but I did my grinding chiefly for the Lord. My anger and arrogance were directly tied to my identity as a passionate, “superstar” Christian...

If you don’t know the mission, you can never know if you are on the right track. I believe this is especially true when it comes to churches. The church must understand its purpose and aim in order to most effectively measure every practice it engage...

Thanks for joining my email list because you have an interest in this book project I've been alluding to on social media for the last several months. Well, things are shaping up.After a lot of consideration, I decided that I didn't want to write the...

Oh, I was once so naive… I once believed that if I just get a Ph.D., it will give me the authority to speak on matters that are important to me. Now, I realized, I was very much wrong. People, especially Christians, don’t seem to really respect peopl...

I believe churches should teach on Christan friendship ten times more than they teach on Christian marriage. Okay, the “ten times” is just a number I picked out of a hat, but the point is that Christian friendship as a concept is going to benefit peo...

Hey friends,In lieu of our normal entertainment (me telling a funny story with a spiritual point), I want to get serious.Well, not really...What's SERIOUS is that I just published a simple collection of ten humorous retellings of Bible stories, avail...

I’m not going to solve all the conundrum about “cancel culture” with this one little post, but I wanted to provide some nuances and perspectives to the conversation. Let me be upfront: I’m not against cancel culture, but against some of its uses. Lib...

I’m super excited to introduce my newest podcast, Funny Faith. Christianity doesn’t really have a reputation for being funny. If anything it’s known for being kinda boring. Stuffy even. But I believe humor and Christianity, when joined together, beco...

For your convenience, I’ve collected all the podcast episodes I’ve guested on where I’ve talked about my book Who We Are: Seven Christian Identities that Shape Your Life. All these are FREE tastes to what you’ll get if you pick up your own copy of th...

Humans are placed in so many no-win situations. One of the silly ones I’ve observed for years is drying your hands in a public bathroom. Many public restrooms have resorted to air dryers, perhaps to save money, maybe even to cut back on paper waste t...

I was a kid who would read anything and everything. The most random things became my teachers. Ingredients, advertisements, random pieces of paper on a desk and especailly the backs of cereal boxes were my books during the rate times when there wasn’...

Sometime in elementary school, a guest artist came into the class and showed us the basics of drawing. I'm no natural artist by any stretch of the imagination, but there was something about the project that entralled me.The premise was to create a ci...

I'm still haunted by a moment after preaching at a small, rural church the summer after my Freshman year of college. An older lady came up to me and said something along the lines of "One day, you'll make a great preacher."I suppose the comment was m...

Like many churches in the Western world, the congregation I attend and minister at has a membership makeup that skews Baby Boomer while the overall membership is in decline. These days it’s not a unique phenomenon that the strongest, most active sect...