Category: Background

• 28 July 2021

  Psalm 90 as “a Prayer of Moses”

  

  I work through the (lack of) reasons to deny Moses’s authorship of Psalm 90 and a few implications.
• 13 July 2021

  Sermon Preparation

  

  I outline some aspects of my sermon-writing process, using my upcoming sermon on Deut 32.1–43 as an example.
• 8 July 2021

  Sermons from “Strange” Scripture

  

  A sermon on a difficult passage of Scripture poses challenges both for the one writing the sermon and for those who hear it.
• 25 July 2019

  Two Huge Updates

  

  I have not been able to write as often as I planned. June and July have been poured mostly into directing the five-week BOOST Camp at New Life, the church where I serve during the academic year in an after-school mission. I’ll confess: I’m exhausted and having a tough time preparing for the mission to…
• 23 June 2019

  A Sermon from Psalm 132

  

  Take a listen to this sermon on Psalm 132 that I delivered at my home congregation, Christ Presbyterian Church. This sermon features the theological and christocentric hermeneutics that I mentioned in my last post. I use the same approach when I am reading Ezekiel, and the syllabus on Ezekiel or the mission to Nairobi (August…