Author Archives: Josh

I am grateful that we have not one, but four accounts of the life of Jesus. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are magnificent works that tell us about Jesus’s teachings and actions. I’ve often wondered why we have four. Wouldn’t … Continue reading →

Tonight I got out the guitar and played Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate” for Mariah’s lullabye. It brought back good memories of playing this song for the first time eleven years ago with my good buddy Cody Pruitt (we played … Continue reading →

As my previous posts have suggested, we tend to read ourselves as the good guys when we read the Bible. The problem, though, is that we’re not always the good guys. Sometimes, we have to consider the possibility that the … Continue reading →

Walter Brueggemann offers this prayer entitled “Income Tax Day.” On this day of internal revenue some of us are paid up, some of us owe, some of us await a refund, some of us have no income to tax. But … Continue reading →

Our tendency to read ourselves as the good guy also hurts us when we read the parable of the lost son. (I prefer to call it “lost son” instead of “prodigal son” because in the end, the “lost son” isn’t … Continue reading →

I think it’s natural to see ourselves as the heroes in the stories we read. We like to think of ourselves in the best light possible. So when we read the story of Jonah in the Bible, we naturally see … Continue reading →