To consume God via his word, he tells us to be speaking the scriptures to ourselves, singing the scriptures to ourselves, and dialoging the scriptures between ourselves.

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Hospitality is a natural function of bodies. Giving the best of yourself for others works out not just at the personal level of individuals or families, but also in churches and even nations. What are some ways that New Zealand is hospitable, what does this hospitality reveal about its religion — and how should we then live?

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We become like God by consuming him. But this pattern does not originate with us. To understand what it means to eat God — and how to do it — we must first know what it means that he eats us.

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Our nation, and everything that makes it unique, is Christ’s own inheritance. We therefore cannot despise it, ignore it, or reject it—but rather love it and build it up for him. An exposition and application of Deuteronomy 21:1–9.

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An exposition and application of Psalm 132.

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Even more elemental than light and eyes are food and mouth. Scripture teaches us that we are always consuming something, and that the first sin was a sin of consumption. In the modern day, we are especially tempted by the unearned wisdom, and unearned glory, of the tree of knowledge. But we must learn first to feed upon the tree of life.

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Rejecting the creator/creature distinction logically and naturally leads to rejecting the male/female distinction. This follows necessarily from the biblical logic of “you become what you worship.”

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An exposition and application of Psalm 124.

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All of life is worship, and we become what we worship; therefore, we are continually being conformed to the image of whatever it is we serve. Let us make sure that this is God, and not a black mirror.

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An exposition and application of Romans 1:14-32.

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