Month: May 2014

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on May 25, 2014) 1 John is a frustrating book if you are very precise and want to lock things down. Throughout the book, you have these binary statements, these statements that put two things into a relationship where …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on May 11, 2014) If you’ve been around me very long, you know I’m a guy who loves a metaphor. Metaphors fit me like a glove. (See what I did there?) Actually all the English majors are going, “Dude, …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 27, 2014) When you are learning Greek, the place in the bible that you often get asked to translate first is the letter we call 1 John. This is because it is sort of like the Dr. …