This is the audio (25:40; 17.6 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on October 12, 2025. The main Scripture was 1 Chronicles 21:1–22:1. Other texts included Psalm 118:14–29 and Hebrews 12:1–11.
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This is the audio (30:00; 20.6 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on October 5, 2025. The sermon was a walk-through of 1 Chronicles 1–9. Other texts included Psalm 80 and John 4:7–10, 19–26.
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This is the audio (27:43; 19.0 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on September 28, 2025. The main text was 1 Chronicles 17:7–14. Other texts included Luke 24:36–49 and Psalm 89:1–4, 38–51.
Continue readingI’m honored to have been invited to present at an online conference, “How did Benjaminite and Judean memories shape the stories of David and Saul? Contested Narratives of David and Saul,” hosted by Dr. JiSeong James Kwon of the Nehemiah Institute and Yonsei University’s Institute of Christianity and Korean Culture (ICKC), January 27–29, 2026.
My paper is entitled: ‘His Words Fell to the Ground’: Saul’s Unreliable Speech in First Samuel, the Social Contract, and Leadership Polemics in the Persian Period.
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This is the audio (29:56; 20.5 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on August 31, 2025. The main text was Ephesians 6:10–24. Other texts included Psalm 144 and Matthew 10:16–25.
Continue readingThis is the audio (30:33; 20.9 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on August 24, 2025. The main text was 2 Corinthians 9. Other texts included Psalm 50:7–23 and Deuteronomy 14:22–29.
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This is the audio (30:41; 21.0 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on August 17, 2025. The main text was Ephesians 6:1–9. Other texts included Psalm 95; Exodus 21:1–6, 20–21, 26–27; and Deut 23:15–16.
Continue readingThis is the audio (28:55; 19.8 MB) of a Sunday sermon I preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Erie, PA, on August 10, 2025. The main text was Ephesians 5:21–33. Other texts included Psalm 45 and Isaiah 51:17–52:3.
Continue reading“Our mission [as theological educators] is to think, read, write, and teach about the triune Lord of Christian confession. This is a hard thing. Each of us should be tense with the effort of it, thrumming like a tautly triple-woven steel thread with the work of it, consumed by the fire of it, ever eager for more of it. We have neither time nor resources to waste.” — Paul Griffiths
Some of you know that the Libertarian Christian Institute recently published my book, A House Divided. I was only vaguely aware of LCI until last summer, when a good friend of mine, Brian T., read the draft of my book and suggested that LCI might agree to publish it.
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think hard, think well 
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