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On the Incarnation, a 24 day Advent reading plan
Reading the Patristics for today The Christian year restarted on Sunday with the first Sunday of advent, beginning a period of expectant hope in the second coming of Christ. One of my resolutions this Advent is to contemplate more the incarnation through the book On the Incarnation by Athanasius (298-373), one of the most important books in church history. The reading plan is formatted to be…
A Bible Built for the Daily Office: ESV with Apocrypha
I still remember last year’s daily‑office lectionary calling for 2 Maccabees 6. One line leapt out, “Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age.” I was following along on a podcast with no Apocrypha in hand and thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice to read these passages alongside the rest?” Now I finally can. Unlike many modern Baptists and other evangelicals,…
O Day of peace that dimly shines
Sometimes familiar tunes with new words can be surprising. I had such a moment in 2017 at a remembrance service in St. James Cathedral, Toronto. As the first notes of the tune commonly associated with Jerusalem (Blake’s “And did those feet in ancient time”) rang out—a melody deeply tied to English patriotism—I was jolted from my reverie. This wasn’t a place I expected to hear a hymn that evoked…
Belle (2021) as a metaphor for Worship
Belle (2021) as a metaphor for Worship
[Spoilers for Belle ahead] How do we worship when we don’t want to worship? What is the point of church? Why do we even need others as Christians? Early this year I watched the movie Belle in theater and have been playing with this draft in my mind ever since because I think that the climactic scene of this movie (streamable, dubbed, on HBO Max) provides a secular answer by analogy to all of…
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Cast Away the Works of Darkness
Cast Away the Works of Darkness
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with…
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Why Advent?
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, and I think more than any other year I remember, I welcome this season of the church. It is first week of a new year in the Christian calendar. I know not all my friends keep advent, so I suppose I should explain why it’s so important and why, if you do not already, should remember this time of the year as special in the life of the church.
Advent is a…
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Unless Worship Is for Us, We Cannot Worship with Our Whole Heart—part 2
Unless Worship Is for Us, We Cannot Worship with Our Whole Heart—part 2
Our worship is almost always not biblical. By that I mean if you look at the psalms, a model of worship songs, the songs we pick often don’t line up. The reason for this is that the psalms are not an abstract regurgitation of God’s character and blessings. They are not only outwards towards God but inwards towards ourselves, and our worship is only truly biblical when it matches with this…
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Worship is about us-Part 1
Worship is about us-Part 1
For those who grew up singing Hillsong and Tomlin, we can be often reminded that worship is not about us. For example, in his song, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” Paul Oakley writes that “all this [worship] is for you, for your glory and your name. It’s not about me.” Similarly Tomlin writes “It’s not for us, it’s all for you.” These songs grasp the real truth that worship is about giving worth to…
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A Word to New University Students
A Word to New University Students
Fall is just around the corner and school has started. Six years ago, I started university and since then I like to think I’ve learned quite a bit (and yet the more I learn, the more I realize just how little I actually know). Both in my faith, and in my knowledge of the world my classes, friends, and experience have taught me so much. There are however, some things that I wish I more deeply knew…
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Living a Christian Life, Colossians 3
Living a Christian Life, Colossians 3
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. (Colossians 3.1-4) Colossians is a grand…
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I wrote a book
I wrote a book
Because why not, I spent my free time since July writing a short book on the role of grace in the life of a Christian. The book goes over what grace is, and what some of the implications for grace are in salvation, in our lives, and in what it means for where we’re going. Link: Grace. Pure Grace. (PDF)
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11 Books Every Christian Must Read
Books Every Christian Must Read
Summer is almost upon us and for many students, both in high school and university, summer becomes a time where students let their spiritual development languish as the period of work and study seems to be over. However, rather than languish in time, summer also becomes an opportunity to develop a mind that is keen to learn about the things pertaining to God, to build up the mind so that we may…
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Home, Found Not Here nor There
People long for the familiar. Even many immigrants, people who have uprooted themselves from places of familiarity, often end up in ethnic enclaves with like people. Perhaps no city better illustrates this than New York. Whether it was Irish Immigration into Brooklyn, the creation of Little Italy, or the populating of Chinatown, people gravitate towards people of like origin. We, as people, long…
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The Gospel is not the Center of the Christian Life
One common answer given when you ask a Christian what is the center of the Christian life is the gospel. However, the gospel is not the center of the Christian faith and life. The gospel is important, the gospel changes lives, indeed it is the very power of God unto salvation for all who believe, but it is not the center of the Christian faith. The center of the Christian faith is a term which…
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Do we really have a "Relationship" with Jesus?
Do we really have a “Relationship” with Jesus?
As Evangelicals, as Christians in the modern West, we very much have a view of the Christian lfie that equates faith to relationship. However, this relationship itself is poorly defined and at best, when pressed about it, all we can say is that it amounts to “knowing God and not just abouthim.” Fundamentally though, I think that this analogy of relationship goes too far in proclaiming the…
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No Matt Chandler, opposite gender friendships are not for finding future relationships
No Matt Chandler, opposite gender friendships are not for finding future relationships
Matt Chandler is a famous preacher who leads the Acts 29 network and who I believe has been an effective minister of the gospel. However, he recently answered the question “Should I Date a Godly Girl I Do Not Find Attractive?” in a manner which I believe amounts to bad pastoral advice. His overall answer reads
I don’t encourage a young man to pursue a godly woman romantically if he doesn’t feel…
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Merry Christmas
And the light shined in the darkness and the darkness has not mastered it.
John 1.5
Christmas is the day where Christians celebrate the fulfillment of the promises of God, of God condescending to people so that people might find again a true humanity and exalt the glory of God. Christmas is for the faithful a reminder of freedom from the just wrath of God, of peace among brothers and sisters, and…
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