Families shouldn’t be making funeral plans for their 9-year-old children. Children shouldn’t be burying their mothers and fathers. What do we do with all of this? What do we do about the evil? What do we do with our fear, especially when our fear is warranted?

The desire and default for all Christian parents should be to provide a gospel-centered education for their children.

Western Christians need to acknowledge is that our therapeutic mindset…is a problem almost unique to a wealthy, self-satisfied, and self-centered culture.

I was planning to tell you in this article how to Christian-ize your New Year's resolutions. But then I remembered a conversation I recently had with a congregant.

Christmas is touching something below our rationality, below our clearest sensibilities, below even our awareness—traditions comfort us and assure us of who we are at a visceral level. 

What principles do we as a church need to internalize so that we are ready for the next challenge that will face our community?

I was largely able to avoid politics in my preaching for the first eleven years of my ministry. Yet, I always felt uncomfortable with that. How could such an important part of human life be left untouched by the gospel?

The following statement was made before the sermon during worship at Christ Church Bellingham on July 10th, 2022. You can hear the recording of it on our church’s podcast.

A position paper from the session of Christ Church Bellingham on the issue of cannabis consumption amongst our church members.

In my personal devotions recently I was reading through the section of Leviticus about the skin diseases that made ancient Israelites ceremonially unclean.

How much should we let politics shape our churches? Many Christians feel a real ambivalence about this question.

Over the past year-plus, I have made several statements to our church about how our leadership views our relationship to the government.