the blog

We often communicate thoughtlessly.

We cannot think our way through the things of salvation and eternity; they are beyond us...

What does discipleship look like? For me, it can follow one of two paths.

The only hope that can survive is what comes from outside everything I can touch or influence.

it is helpful to reject the presumption that all progress is inherently good or even inherently benign. Progress is neither of these.

This isn’t a blog post about self-obsession with wounds, and it’s not about suffering for your own evil. That’s not holiness, it’s justice.

Thoughts on walking with Jesus.

I stood at the foot of a cliff in my dream. It seemed an impossible climb, but this is what I knew I had been assigned...

It would be easy to remain flippant and casual toward God if it never cost us anything—that is, if things never got personal...

There are times when we must draw on invisible sources for growth. This isn’t easy. In fact, it’s impossible without supernatural power.

Okay, so: We toured 41 cities in the eastern half of the U.S. this summer. It was amazing.

A man was sent to the worst part of town to help the people who lived there...

I prayed the whole way from Dix to Sidney that the battery had enough guts to get us at least to a hotel...

We’ve left it all behind before and gone, even to the opposite side of the globe. But we haven’t done it this way before.

Would God hide anything without intending to reveal it? Your answer will reveal how well you know Him.

We can learn a lot of things from John 1.1-5. Jesus was with God from the beginning. There is no way He could be a reaction to our sin.

We’ve spent the past seven weeks studying through Jonah here at WhiteNoise Studio, and I’d like to share one of the standouts here.

Maybe the words I need to be able to communicate this idea are best rendered in the language the angels speak.

The more I read Church history, the plainer it is that the heroes of the faith made a regular practice of the discipline of solitude.

If God’s objective is to win souls, and His call so prominently features death, I have a question: How is any of this stuff attractive?

Have you ever noticed that God hides Himself? I know that hidden things are hidden because they’re valuable...

If ever there was a one-word cautionary tale, this is it. Laodicea is, like, the worst. But if you were there, you wouldn’t have known it...

God does indeed answer prayer, but He does it in accordance with His will, in consideration of all timing and purpose...

In practice, especially in the church, these words mean different things. I think this is mainly because we don’t regard our profession...

When art worships vanity, when it worships itself, it is a blight and a curse.

When we turned loose of the American dream this past August—really all the way back in May—we proceeded on faith that God had told us...

Fruit, works, faith, strife, and supporting elements in their periphery seem to be talking about the same general principles...

God, give me a breakthrough! Like you, I can’t count how many times I’ve prayed that. Also, I can’t count how many times it didn’t happen.