This is a question that we need to ask ourselves often and not just on Sunday mornings before we sing worship music. Worship literally means “worth-ship” or to ascribe worth. Worshiping God is not reserved for Sunday mornings alone or for singing alone or for the arts alone. We should be ascribing worth to God [...]
This photo was taken by Greg Blosser a friend who pastors Grace Central Presbyterian Church in the Short North. The sign is in front of Maple Grove United Methodist Church a few blocks from our home and every time I drive by it makes me shake my head. I won’t elaborate on the obvious motive [...]
Recently I’ve been reading Fathered by God, by John Eldredge. It’s definitely challenging me to broaden my understanding of who God is and how God works. It’s also causing me to look at wounds in my life that have deeply affected me psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. I’m coming to find that my wounds have negative [...]
This week I wanted to direct you to a post a friend of mine wrote for the Gospel Coalition website titled Mother of the Year? Not Here. Gloria and her husband Dave are great friends of ours and they’re currently church planting in Dubai. It’s a privilege to know them and to see what God [...]
Ohio State football players selling memorabilia and autographs for cash. Auburn potentially paying Cam Newton hundreds of thousands of dollars. Photographs of Alabama players signing autographs and wearing suits from a local business owner. University of North Carolina coaches funneling players to an agent. With each new week, a new scandal involving major college football [...]
The primary failings of many Christian marriages is not due to a lack of a financial plan, understanding of marital roles, or not reading the Bible enough. I believe a huge miss in many supposed Christ-centered marriages is a lack of companionship, joy, and intimacy. To put it plainly, many spouses just aren’t friends. They [...]
Listen to Jay’s recent sermon from Mosaic Church Ann Arbor on discipleship.
I’ve mentioned before that my old mentor, Andy Kerr, leads a church plant in Erie, PA. Although it’s been years since we were meeting weekly over coffee in “The Bagel Shop,” Andy still has a great deal of influence in my life and ministry. Recently, there was a write-up on a local news site about [...]
Yesterday I introduced the implications of sin and the stench it creates, as well as unpacking the first part of the statement, “When we catch a whiff of ourselves we’re inclined to take one of two routes: 1) we may try to turn something rotten into something good; or 2) trying to cover up the [...]
By definition a stench is an “offensive odor.” Even as I utter the word stench I find my shoulders getting tense and I sense my brain sending signals to my nostrils to watch out and be extra sensitive in order to guard my olfactory nerve from some disgusting stink. A stench can clear a room. [...]