Pastor's Pen

I’ve been reading Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, the story of Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister. One passage stopped me cold: Hitler, in speech after speech, insisted the war was entirely Churchill’s fault. Britain could have peace tomorrow, he claimed, if only that one warmongering drunk in London would step aside. Germany, Hitler said, had no interest in the British Empire at al...

Have you ever wondered how people in the Old Testament were saved—how they were declared righteous before a holy God? It can appear that it was through their own personal righteousness and law keeping, however, the same gospel that saves us today was at work even then, by faith. 1. It Was Always About Faith-  The Bible makes it crystal clear: Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as rig...

Let's blow our minds on God’s Foreknowledge: When we read in 1 Peter 1:1-2 that believers are “elect…according to the foreknowledge of God,” we might wonder how God’s choosing and our free choices fit together. Quantum mechanics offers a mind-bending analogy to challenge our simplistic views. Imagine every object in the universe having a “wave function,” a kind of blueprint describing its state. W...

Weaponized Empathy and Compassion: A Biblical Christian PerspectiveWe live in a world increasingly shaped by emotion.  I often see well-meaning and “good” people go sideways in what they stand for and I can’t help but think what a brilliant deception it is to weaponize empathy and compassion.  Especially amongst my “tribe”. However, Christians are called to discern the difference between genuine c...