This biblical lecture is based on Mark 1:40-2:15.

This biblical lecture was preached Easter Sunday 2021. It is based on Mark 16:1-8.

This is the third in our series of biblical lectures on the Gospel of Mark. It is based on Mark 1:21-39. 

This is the second in our series of biblical lectures on the Gospel of Mark. It is based on Mark 1:14-20.

This is the first in our series of biblical lectures on the Gospel of Mark. It's based on Mark 1:1-15.

Should faith be banished from the public square? Does God exist? If so, where is God? In this message, I conclude the series, Dialog with a Skeptic, by explaining why I believe trust in God is warranted by rational people.

The message is based on 1 John 4:7-12, 1 Cor 3:16, and Rev 3:20.

Why do we suffer? Why do bad things happen? And, if our God is a loving and all-powerful God, why does God allow such suffering? How does Jesus teach us to think about suffering? 

This message is based on Psalm 73: 1-5,13-17, 22–28, Luke 13:1-5, and Romans 12:9-21.

See the Far Side Cartoon I mention here: 

What kind of God sanctions genocide, the suppression of women, slavery, and all the other bad stuff in the Bible? Why are these stories in the Bible at all? If that's what God is like, why would a rational person trust God? And how could the Bible possibly be authoritative for me?

This message was based on an array of texts that are not commonly read in worship:

Gen 22, Deut 7:1-4, Ps 137:8-9. 1 Sam 15:2-3, Number 25:4-5, and Mark 7:26-30, Rom 11:17, all in conversation with 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and Hebrews 4:12-13.

This message is based on Genesis 4:1-16 and Hebrews 11:1-4.

This message is based on Isaiah 58:6ff, Isaiah 61:1-4, and Luke 4:14-30.

Is not this the fast that I choose:

to loose the bonds of injustice,

to undo the thongs of the yoke,

to let the oppressed go free,

and to break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,

and bring the homeless poor into your house;

when you see the naked, to cover them,

and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,

and your healing shall spring up quickly;

your vindicatora shall go before you,

the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;

you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am.

a Or vindication

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989), Is 58:6–9.