Teaching Life
Effectively teaching in the context of all scripture being a unified theme that points to Jesus
The Story That Slips Past the Guard
How the Teacher Taught — Post 4
The storyteller's failure is almost never craft. It's nerve. Anyone could have told the story about the lamb — the hard part was saying "you are the man" to a king.
The Question That Does the Work
How the Teacher Taught — Post 3
A discussion that costs nobody anything hasn't formed anybody. On the difference between a real question and a quiz — and why Jesus asked far more than he ever answered.
The Expositor
How The Teacher Taught - Post 2
Deep teaching is a genuine gift. Its blind spot is quiet and easy to miss: mistaking your own depth for their formation — walking out full while half the room went hungry.
The Teacher Who Wouldn't Pick A Style
How The Teacher Taught - Post 1
Jesus didn't have a teaching style. He had a range. Here's why your natural way of teaching is both your greatest gift and your biggest blind spot.
You Don’t Want to Go to Hell, Do You?
What the New Testament Actually Shows Us About How People Came to Jesus — and Why Scaring Them Into It Might Be the Laziest Gospel We’ve Ever Preached
A VBS leader asked little girls, “You don’t want to go to hell, do you?” So I researched how people actually came to Jesus in the New Testament. Not one instance was fear-based.
Three Sundays Without a Net
What Happens When the Pastor Is Away and Three Different People Fill the Pulpit
The pastor was away for three Sundays. Three men filled in. Three different problems. Theological misalignment, scattered prep, and a Google search sermon. All were predictable and preventable.
"So... Any Thoughts?"
Why Small Churches Deserve Better Than the Curriculum They're Getting
Every week, a small group leader opens the Bible, reads a passage, looks up at the room, and says: 'So... any thoughts?"