Believing in Jesus, Believing like Jesus
We kicked off weekly worship our satellite campus this Sunday with the first in a sermon of series: The 7 Deadlies and the 7 Ways that Jesus Saves Us. As you’ll see, the new venue allowed me to use...
View ArticleThe Cross: Is God More Infantile than Us?
Herbert McCabe was a 20th century theologian who deserves to be rediscovered. McCabe was a Dominican who brought an Irishman’s clear, vibrant prose to the Church’s greatest of teachers: Thomas Aquinas....
View ArticleHoly Week with Herbert: The Father Didn’t Send the Son to Die
I’m marking this Holy Week by reading the work of the late Herbert McCabe, a Dominican philosopher who had a gift for articulating the ancient Christian tradition in concise, clear, crisp prose. “In...
View ArticleLink Love
Here are some things you might’ve missed this week that are worth a read: On the First Things blog: If You Don’t Know the Bible, You Don’t Know Bob Dylan If Christians can’t be bakers and hoteliers...
View ArticleIf God Doesn’t Give a Damn about Sin, Then What’s Prayer?
Led by Hebert McCabe, the late Dominican philosopher, I’ve spent nights and early mornings the past few months rereading many of the ancient Church Fathers as well as St Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of...
View ArticleIf God Doesn’t Give a Damn Then What is a Miracle?
A few weeks ago I posted a reflection on the ancient Christian doctrine of God’s immutability, God’s unchangingness. Admittedly the jumping off quote from the late Dominican philosopher, Herbert...
View ArticleIt’s Absurd to Think You Can Defy God
My friend Morgan Guyton points out: ‘when Paul uses the term haeretikos in Titus 3:10 that gets translated into our term “heretic,” the problem with the person he’s describing is not the incorrectness...
View ArticleDoes God Exist? No.
Lately I’ve been working to write a catechism of the faith for our students, one that incorporates both the particular confessions of Christian belief as well as the philosophical commitments that make...
View ArticleThe Devil Tells the Truth
This weekend we kick-off a new sermon series for the summer, Songs of the Messiah, which will track the way St. Paul uses the Psalms in his Letter to the Romans to unpack who Jesus is and what God...
View ArticleCan God’s Existence be Proven?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
View ArticleNietzsche was Right: God Cannot Love Us
One of the things our youth have conveyed to our new youth director is their desire for catechesis before college. Training before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Does Christmas Need the Cross?
For the past year, I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a...
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