Blog Series List

On this page, I have listed the various series I have written on my blog so that you can find and navigate them easily.

Teaching & 1 John (2025)

During my preparation to teach a college course on 1-3 John, I was impressed regarding the relevance of the truths in these books as regards my career as a teacher. After presenting a trip of brief devotionals on the topic to my fellow faculty, I decided to expand them to a blog series.
  1. Fellowship with God - The goal of Christian is inviting students to share in fellowship with God that will result in spiritual formation as their knowledge of God turns to sanctification.
  2. Righteous Character - The first test John gives to a church beset by false teaching is that they should only follow teachers who evidence knowing God buy their righteous character.
  3. Familial Love - The second test for true teachers is that they must love others, showing that they both understand the love God has shown them in salvation as well as display God's character by loving what God himself loves.
  4. Right Christology - The third and final test for true teachers in 1 John is right belief about Christ, which is really the only test, as both righteous living and familial love flow from knowing God in Christ.

Biblical Friendship (2024)

We live in a world that idolizes friendship, yet, many would say that the quality of friendships in our world today is poorer than ever before. Though not often preached from the pulpit, friendship is a biblical category of relationship, and one that colors the pages of Scripture more than the average believer realizes. If the teaching of Scripture is neglected, then relationships become self-focused rather than following the example of Christ.
  1. Introduction - Friendship is moving toward God together.
  2. Friendship Is God's Idea - Friendship originates in God himself and is part of imaging him.
  3. Friendship Is God's Gift - Friendship is an inestimable gift from God for our good.
  4. Friendship Is God's Tool - Friendship is intended to lead us to know God and become like him.
  5. Friendship Is God's Goal - Friendship with himself and others is what God designed us for.

What Is Respect? (2024)

I have heard a lot of talk about the concept of respect. Certainly, respect is a biblical concept (and command), but I have come to realize that we often use this word without defining or analyzing what we mean.With each new generation, the buzzwords and their definitions shift; just as each generation has its own ideas of what is most important, so too each generation defines those important topics according to its own values. I have found this to be the case with the seemingly nebulous concept of “respect.” This seven-part blog post series comes from a student life workshop I presented at the Christian university where I teach.

  1. Courtesy - Respect as courtesy for all people as images of God
  2. Marriage - Respect as submission of wives to their husbands
  3. Parenting - Respect as submission of children to their parents
  4. Government - Respect as submission of citizens to government
  5. Workplace - Respect as submission of employees to employers
  6. Church - Respect as submission of congregants to pastors
  7. Imitation - Respect as following the example of mature believers

Meditations (Ongoing)

Occasionally, I find myself thinking about a certain issue regarding life on this earth or the Christian walk, in general, and after studying that topic out in Scripture, I post it here. These posts are not connected to each other other than in their format.
  1. Make Your Wife Beautiful - Husbands are responsible for choosing to love their wives as Christ loves the church; it is not her physical beauty but your choice to love her that makes your wife beautiful.
  2. Meditations on Death - Death is an evil result of sin that is an affront to the image of God in humanity, yet through death God does much good and he will ultimately defeat it.
  3. Meditations on the Man, Christ Jesus - A proper understanding of Jesus humanity and deity help us to better comprehend the immensity of his incarnation, atonement, resurrection, and continuing ministry in our behalf.
  4. Insights from Reading the Psalms in Hebrew - In 2024, I read through the Psalms in Hebrew for the first time; this post is a compilation of  my insights from that study.

Sermons (Ongoing)

As I have the opportunity to preach in various venues, I post some of my sermons on my blog for people to read and watch, since usually a place a recording on the page as well.
  1. Good Job - Keep It Up! (1 Thess. 4:9-12) - A sermon from a series on 1 Thessalonians, offering encouragement to those doing well in their Christian walk.
  2. Praising Through Lament (Ps. 88) - A sermon from a series on Psalms that emphasizes the role of lament in the life of believers in suffering.
  3. God Remains Faithful (Heb. 11:32-40) - A sermon from a series on Hebrews 11 summarizing the chapter's teaching that God remains faithful and is worthy of our faithfulness to him.
  4. A Mary Perspective for the New Year (Luke 1:46-55) - A sermon on Mary's song of praise, often called the Magnificat, urging us to remember who God has been as the foundation for our future faith.
  5. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4:1-42) - A sermon I preached at my home church, Lakewood Baptist Church, on 11/20/2024 as a series on scenes from the Gospels
  6. Jesus through the Eyes of Women (Luke 7:11-8:3) - A sermon from a series on the Gospel of Luke highlighting several female characters and their interactions with Jesus as models for the church today.

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