top of page
How Could a Good God Send Someone to Hell?
This is an excerpt from a book I’ve got coming out in a few weeks, 12 Truths and a Lie: Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s a...
Nov 13, 20234 min read
2 views
0 comments
Isn’t the Bible’s Morality Outdated?
This is an excerpt from a book I’ve got coming out in a few weeks, 12 Truths and a Lie: Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s a...
Oct 23, 20234 min read
0 views
0 comments
Why Is the Bible So Concerned With Homosexuality?
The following excerpt is adapted from a book I just released, Essential Christianity: The Heart of the Gospel in Ten Words. Here’s what...
Feb 13, 20238 min read
0 views
0 comments
Isn’t Christianity Just Wishful Thinking?
The following excerpt is adapted from a book I’m releasing on February 1, Essential Christianity: The Heart of the Gospel in Ten Words....
Jan 30, 202312 min read
0 views
0 comments
Who Is Jesus?
The following excerpt is adapted from a book I’m releasing in just a few weeks, Essential Christianity: The Heart of the Gospel in Ten...
Jan 2, 20237 min read
1 view
0 comments
The Best Books I’ve Read This Year
Pastor J.D. is one of those guys who likes to take a break from a good book … to enjoy another book. He reads and reads and reads. Maybe...
Jun 20, 20226 min read
1 view
0 comments
What My Kids Are Reading This Summer
My wife and I are avid readers. So it’s probably no surprise that our kids devour books, too. Every summer we choose a handful of books...
Jun 13, 20222 min read
0 views
0 comments
What to Read During Your Summer Quarantine
Will quarantine continue throughout the summer? We certainly hope not. But we’ve learned enough by now to stop speculating. Perhaps this...
Jun 22, 20206 min read
0 views
0 comments
What Made the Early Church Unique, Love is the Foundation of Knowledge, & Our Predictions About
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Jan 24, 20202 min read
0 views
0 comments
Power Disparities, Adoniram Judson’s Spiritual Descendants, & Can We Trust the Gospels?
We’ll be taking a blogging break for Christmas, and will see you again Jan. 6. Enjoy your Christmas and New Year’s! Wisdom for Your...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
0 views
0 comments
What You Should Read This Summer
Pastor J.D. is an avid reader—both by personality and by conviction. But you don’t have to devour books as ravenously as he does to...
Jun 14, 20198 min read
0 views
0 comments
Books You Should Read (or Read Again), the Wisdom of Social Media, & How Work Is Making Us Mise
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Mar 29, 20193 min read
0 views
0 comments
Steps to Social Media Sanity, Principles for Ethnic Harmony, & the Least Politically Prejudiced
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Mar 15, 20192 min read
0 views
0 comments
Some Awesome Books on Writing
I (Chris) have the rare privilege of writing for a living. Writing isn’t all that I do (I also attend many meetings, which buoy my soul...
Mar 11, 20191 min read
0 views
0 comments
How to Read in 2019, When Christian Authors Are (Subtly) Unbiblical, & Taking a Break from the
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Jan 11, 20192 min read
0 views
0 comments
Online Shame Storms, Death and Hope at Christmas, & The Best (No Really) Books of 2018
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Dec 21, 20182 min read
0 views
0 comments
In Memory of Eugene Peterson, What Pastors Don’t Have to Do, & the Bookish Life
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Oct 26, 20182 min read
0 views
0 comments
Radically Ordinary Hospitality
I’ve been reading an excellent new book recently by Rosaria Butterfield, called The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically...
Sep 12, 20184 min read
0 views
0 comments
Vladimir Putin, Pastoral Burnout, & Escaping the Christian Bubble
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Jul 20, 20182 min read
1 view
0 comments
Radically Ordinary Hospitality, More Pressing than Women Preachers, & When Motherhood Feels Lik
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
Jun 8, 20182 min read
0 views
0 comments
bottom of page