“The Teacher says, ‘Where is my guest room?’” — Mark 14:14 There are some characters in Scripture that captivate me. Many are familiar: Joseph, Jonah, Jesus. These are well-known, well-discussed, towering figures in Christian circles. Then there are others. Barely noted, rarely mentioned, often unnamed. But the one sentence they appear in is enough to […]

“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” – Jesus The church in Ephesus was doing great. Look at their endorsements: patient, weariless endurance; a hatred of evil; a penchant for proving out false teachers. And look at their endorser: the star-holding, fire-eyed, sun-glowing Son of Man

And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. – Luke 24:33 Simon and Cleopas needed to get out of town and Emmaus was a good a destination as any. It was seven miles away from Jerusalem. Seven miles away from the city that murdered God. Seven miles away from the crazed mob that

A friend asked me to write a letter for his son’s 13th birthday, encouraging him as he enters a new season of growth as a man. Here’s what I shared. Happy birthday! I’m honored to join in the celebration of your life. The thoughts I’ve written below are originally the Apostle Paul’s, inspired by the

“The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside

I re-visited one of my favorite places on the planet recently: the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. An annex of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, it’s packed to the gills with flight hardware, artifacts, and more. A plane nerd could spend days there but for someone like me, there’s only one reason to

Resurrection was easy when Jesus was the One doing it. But what do you do when the Life has been killed? It was easy for dead men to hear when Jesus was the One speaking. But what do you do when the Word has been silenced? It was easy to remove the cover from Lazarus’

The key to understanding Martha is to first understand her motivation. She was not, in my opinion, a workaholic who simply wanted to keep herself and those around her occupied with the trappings of busy-ness. She was a deeply committed follower of Jesus who, like any of His other disciples, lost sight for a moment