• The Good Wine

    The Good Wine

    When Jesus keeps the wine flowing at the wedding party, we get a chance to adjust our expectations in a surprising way.

  • Better Than We Are

    Better Than We Are

    Jesus’s miracle of turning water into wine is famous. But it isn’t the only thing that matters about this story.

  • Stop with all the talk of normal

    Stop with all the talk of normal

    With all the talk of “returning to normal” and the effects of living in the pandemic, normal is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

  • He’s not saving the good wine

    He’s not saving the good wine

    Jesus famously turns water into wine. But the greatness of the miracle is not that he can do it. But that he does.

  • Change: what does it take to like it?

    Change: what does it take to like it?

    It is hard to square a posture that leans away from change when the gospel itself is fundamentally about change.

  • Setting up my Bullet Journal for 2022

    Setting up my Bullet Journal for 2022

    People all over the world celebrate New Year’s Day in a variety of ways. I, like many other nerds, prepared my Bullet Journal

  • New Life in an Old World

    New Life in an Old World

    The Baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the story. And it reminds us of the central theme of the gospel is new life.

  • The Simplicity Paradox

    The Simplicity Paradox

    We want it all. And we want simplicity. But keeping it simple while accessing everything is virtually impossible.