Although I already written more than half of my sermon on Hebrews 1:1-3, I couldn’t shake that we as 21^st Century readers needed to be properly oriented to the epistle. Thus, for Resurrection Sunday, I gave a short description of the probable circumstances of the original readers, then I read all of Hebrews as that morning’s sermon. Aside from my own introduction and conclusion, I can safely say that this was the greatest sermon that I was blessed to deliver this year.

I began this year with two sermons, one from Psalms and another from Proverbs. Those two books of worship and wisdom are sources of continuous meditation since I always begin my devotional Bible reading with a Psalm and conclude with a chapter of Proverbs. This particular proverb has become something of a motto in our household, reminding us that fruitfulness is more valuable than tidiness.

Hebrews 11 felt like a miniseries within the overall book, and for good reason! These three verses are some of the most well-known in the entire epistle, and thinking through the importance of faith was a great journey.

Though our time in Exodus this year was brief, this text was a highlight for two reasons. First, it drives home the sin of grumbling, and second, it gives such a beautiful picture of the gospel, of God Himself taking the punishment that we rightly deserved.

I think Richard Phillips is right to argue that Hebrews 7 should be ranked alongside Hebrews 11 and Romans 8 as one of the greatest chapters in all of Scripture. The argument that the author is making is dense but unspeakably rewarding.

This year I began a podcast series called Dead Men Preaching, where I record a sermon from church history. This Christmas sermon from Joseph Alleine ended up being my favorite of the year.

This article was my thoughts after reading Empty Planet. In my opinion, the global population decline is one of the most important yet also most ignored problems before us today.

This is my take on both Rings of Power and artificial intelligence.

This was a sermonette that I got to preach at my local association of Baptists, and it is a text that is never far from my mind and heart.

There was something different about Pride Month this year. The debauchery was more brazen, but there also seemed to be a simmering, collective exasperation from the overall populous. Yet even if this year was zenith of wokeness, this article is a call for us to recognize that the sin of pride goes far deeper than the letters LGBT.

I wrote this to praise my wife’s faithfulness to the Lord and to encourage others to value gathering with God’s people on the Lord’s Day as well.

This year I began writing meditations for each question of the New City Catechism. Although I have been blessed diving further into each of them, the first question, which is a summary of the whole, remains my favorite.

Our daughter’s birth got me thinking about this verse.

Jesus is commanding His followers to a holy war no less extreme than the conquest of Canaan. We only think it less extreme because it is no external war against others but an internal war against our own sinful flesh. Yet the principle remains intact. 

Christian, do not let the suffering of the righteous nor the prosperity of the wicked allow your feet to slip. Do not envy the wealth and ease of the wicked. Death comes for the mighty and rich as steadily as for the weak and impoverished, and then comes judgment. 

Brothers and sisters, we know (at least intellectually) that suffering is unavoidable in this life. Therefore, we ought to prepare ourselves to endure the tempests of life by anchoring ourselves with these two steadfast truths: that God’s rules are righteous and that He always afflicts His children in faithfulness.