I have to say that I had a great time with Prof Michelle Knight and Prof James Arcadi on the Foreword podcast of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. We recorded the episode a few weeks ago…
pastoral reflections
Happy New Year! 2020 Reflections & Key Verse for 2021
Happy New Year! 2021 is the Year of the Ox. It’s supposed to be a year of fortune, celebrating the virtues of honesty, reliability, hard work and trustworthiness. The ox is the opposite of being…
Happy New Year this 2019!
Happy New Year! From everyone I’ve talked to, we all seemed to have a really tough 2018, full of disappointment, distress, sometimes tragedy, illness, and disaster. I’m grateful that through the valley moments in my…
Happy New Year! The Year of God’s Favor and Strength
Wow! 2017 came and went. I know it’s the same 12 months in a year, or 52 weeks, 365 days, 8760 hours, or 525,600 minutes, and so on… but it does feel like it goes…
The NT Lund Lectures 2017: Grant Macaskill on the Mystery and Sufferings of Christ
Prof. Grant Macaskill, the NT Lund Lecturer for 2017 Today (Sept 28, 2017), the New Testament series for the Nils W. Lund Memorial Lund Lectureship was given by Dr. Grant Macaskill, the Kirby Laing Chair…
The OT Lund Lectures 2017: Brent Strawn on the Bible as Poetry, Not Narrative
Prof. Brent Strawn, the OT Lund Lecturer for 2017 This week we’re right in the middle of North Park Theological Seminary’s annual Lund Lectureship and Symposium on the Theological Reading of Scripture. Each year, for…
Will Start to Blog Again… I Think!
Illustration Credit: Gemma Correll (public domain) Well, the photo says it all. As the Spring 2017 semester comes to a close: When giving finals, I was the early bird (who schedules finals at 8am? especially…
Paul as Pastor
Last week, I was at the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Midwinter 2017 Conference. With fear and trembling, I was asked to teach on the topic of leadership in the New Testament, and I ended up preparing…
Happy New Year this 2017!
Photo Credit ©2016 Fengshui Beginner Happy New Year! Goodbye to the year of the (fire) monkey, and hello to 2017, the year of the (fire) rooster! It’s a Lee family clan tradition to begin the new…
Christmas Blessings 2016
Photo of a painting I purchased from a Christian artist during my trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo entitled “Nativity” © May 2015 As I was reading Luke 1 during our family “7 Day Countdown…