There’s no feeling quite like stumbling across a Bible truth you hadn’t seen before.

Whether it’s a typological reading, where something in the Old Testament clearly foreshadows a later happening, or a Greek or Hebrew word that unlocks a connection by its use in multiple contexts, or any other bit of knowledge that adds to or changes what we knew before, it’s an exciting discovery to make.

Just when you thought you had a general grasp of the Bible and that there was little left to learn outside of trivia, you stumble upon a door that shows you there’s so much more exploring to do.

However… this excitement and desire to know more can easily be pointed in the wrong direction

I’m all in favor of the kind of teaching that gets people excited to dig deeper in the Bible. But purveyors of secret or hidden or at least under-discussed knowledge have their audiences on the back foot from minute one. “I bet you didn’t know that! And if you didn’t know that, guess what else you don’t know?”

To be clear, this is not a generic warning.

In recent years the internet has seen the rise of multiple strains of “hidden knowledge,” and while some of it is helpful, our guard needs to be up.

Three particular examples come to mind

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The troublemaker is not the one who points out the elephant, but the one who insists the elephant not be pointed out. Because an elephant in a room is a problem, and wisdom dictates that we handle our problems.

So, let’s talk about an elephant that exists in many rooms—namely in church auditoriums.

January 28, 2025

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Welcome back to the Church Reset read-through!

This week I read and comment on chapter 1, ‘Shouldn’t Church Be… More?’

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January 23, 2025

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Reading through Genesis to begin the year, I’m reminded once again what a brilliant book it is. It’s one of the great epics written in all of human history.

However, there is a prominent theme that runs throughout the book and trickles down into the rest of the Old Testament that is rather disheartening.

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New Series!

In this new series of videos and podcast episodes, I’m reading and commenting on my 2020 book, Church Reset: God's Design for So Much More

This is the first of a number of books I’ll be doing this year. In the future I’ll be inviting guest commenters to join me, but for Church Reset I’ll be going solo.

Watch below or listen on the Church Reset podcast feed (Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app).

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A hybrid god

January 16, 2025

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“And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai” (Genesis 16:2b).

Man, what a disaster that was.

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January 10, 2025

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January 7, 2025

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