TweetThis is the third of a three part series on the role of God as our shepherd and we as His sheep. So far I’ve presented two aspects: 1) That sheep are dependent, defenseless, and directionless—and we are like sheep [1 Peter 2:25]. 2) That when we understand what shepherding was like in biblical times, [...]
TweetIn the Bible our relationship with God is likened to that of a shepherd and his sheep. In the first part of this blog series, I examined what the nature of sheep is like. They are dependent, defenseless, and directionless. God created incredibly needy animals, and then declares repeatedly that people are like sheep [Ezekiel [...]
TweetI’m glad to introduce a three-part guest post series by one of my very favorite people, Sarah Draves. Sarah has been an incredible friend to my wife and me over this past year. This series, which explores the biblical use sheep and shepherding imagery, is close to her heart, and it’s my hope that God [...]
TweetIn my last post, I promised you a sort of “lab exercise” where you can practice this concept of viewing the world through the story of the Gospel, and assessing what things are true and false based on their agreement with the greatest story ever told. In this post, we’ll consider the topic of vulnerable [...]
TweetI’ve spent the last few posts being pretty abstract about why we need the Gospel story as our moral compass. I have not, however, told you what it looks like to live a life where the Gospel truly is your moral compass. I want to begin that here, but it’s probably going to take three [...]
TweetIn my last post, I promised you a second reason for why you need the Gospel story as the ultimate “why” to your worldview. Here it is. Reason #2: If we don’t have a story to live for, our lives are meaningless. Give Ecclesiastes a quick read and you’ll begin to see what I’m saying. [...]
TweetIn the last post, I talked about how the Bible teaches that everything good and true has its fulfillment in Christ; that the Gospel is not just a part of the Bible, but rather, all of the Bible exists to explain the elements of this one story from which all truth and wisdom has its [...]
TweetI embedded a video of Tim Keller in my recent post, A Threefold Gospel Presentation. If you watched the whole thing (I highly recommend it), you may have realized that I wrote about his first point (discussing moralism alongside hedonism as equally unChristian ways to live), and one of his last points (the importance of [...]
TweetWe ended New Life’s Florida Spring Break trip (themed “The War Within”) with a wrap-up on Romans 12. As we spent the whole week talking about the internal struggle between the flesh and Spirit (see my last post),I tried to pull some key truths from Romans 12 about the ongoing spiritual war that surrounds us…illustrating [...]
TweetI gave my first full-length teaching to students on the Florida Spring Break trip. The last post was meant to end with a bit of a cliffhanger, and that’s what I wanted for the students as well. We walked through Romans 6, 7, 8 and 12 separately, and I wanted to paint a vision for [...]