5 Methods of Personal Devotionals

This is the third post in a series on “Building a Better Devotional.” In this series, I talk about the Christian’s devotional life, and give tips on how to build a better devotional. Other posts in this series can be found here. For more articles related to devotionals and hermeneutics, click the side bar menu under “Devotionals & Hermeneutics.“ […]

Investing to Become “Experts” in the Word

This is the second post in a series on “Building a Better Devotional.” In this series, I talk about the Christian’s devotional life, and give tips on how to build a better devotional. Other posts in this series can be found here. For more articles related to devotionals and hermeneutics, click the side bar menu under “Devotionals & Hermeneutics.“ […]

Planning and Prioritizing Spiritual “Meal Times”

This is the first post in a series on “Building a Better Devotional.” In this series, I talk about the Christian’s devotional life, and give tips on how to build a better devotional. Other posts in this series can be found here. For more articles related to devotionals and hermeneutics, click the side bar menu under “Devotionals & Hermeneutics.“ […]

Applying Old Wisdom to a New Generation: Concluding thoughts on the Song of Songs (OT Part 5)

This past Sunday, Pastor Joey finished preaching on the Song of Songs, a book that we’ve spent the last 10 weeks preaching through (if you’re interested in listening to any of our sermons, they can be found here: http://sunsetchurchsf.org/resources/sermons/sermon-archive-2014). Studying through this book has been both scary and fun; and with it has come lots of […]

"Song of Songs for the Youth?!" Applying Old Wisdom to a New Generation (OT Part 4)

Our church has been preaching through Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon) for almost 4 weeks now. And almost every week I preach, the days leading up to my sermon are filled with excitement, stress, and confusion (in that order of progression). As Joey (our Lead Pastor) and I talk back and forth about […]

Song of Songs: What does it mean and Why does it matter? (OT Part 3)

This post is a return to a series of blog posts answering the question, “How should we study the Old Testament?” As our church is beginning a sermon series in Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes for 2014, this post will serve as a primer for studying Wisdom literature in general, and Song of Songs specifically. […]

Corrective Lenses: Reading the Bible like we "read" Art? (Part 2 of OT Tactics)

Janet (my, now, fiancee) and I love art; modern art, to be exact. But the way we love art is slightly different: I love how the colors come together to form one cohesive picture. I love how an abstract piece of modern art can take on various meanings and significances the longer I gaze upon […]

What are these 39 books for? (Part 1 of Old Testament Tactics)

Early on in my faith, during my late junior high and early high school years, I used to have a tiny black Bible I would carry around with me in my back pocket. Being a young believer and hungry to learn, I would mark up that Bible every time I opened it – underlining sentences, […]

I want to tell the whole world that I am a sinner, so that the whole world may know that Jesus is the only Savior…

Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” …Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever […]

"…they worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator"

iPhone4!!!! it came it finally came!!! This past week I finally got the long awaited iPhone4. Anyone who knows me knows that my previous phone (which will remain unnamed, though named after a deliciously tart fruit and “a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere,” courtesy of dictionary.com) was about the most frustrating phone […]