Ephesians 6

Gird yourself with the T-shirt of righteousness, the backpack of faith, the hoodie of salvation.

If so, what did he mean?

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

The armor of God and the violence of the Bible

To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive.

The disciples remember every miracle that Jesus did, every truth that he proclaimed.

Before judging individuals for their sin, we should try to understand the forces of evil influencing them.

Matthew 4:12–23

When I was in my mid 20s, I came down with pneumonia bad enough that I had to spend two weeks in the hospital. I felt cut off from everything. I had no idea what things were like on the outside.

As I watched Inside Out, I found myself thinking about Augustine's assertion that we are what we love and what we hate.

Halloween's tradition of shadowy characters makes it as good a time as any to think on the reality of evil, sin and death that besets us.

Excellent Christian preaching names and explores the shadows in order to declare that the light shines in the darkness.

Our armor always loses because our weapons are consistently one step ahead of our protection.

Jesus called the Twelve together and put the question to them with unsettling directness: Do you also wish to go away? I wonder sometimes how I would have responded to the question. Because at times the truth is I do wish to go away.