Jesus-Centered Identity (Centered #9) November 13, 2022 Back in 1999, two academic psychologists put together a video designed to measure selective attention. The video went viral, they did further research on […]
Jesus-Centered Religion (Centered #8) November 6, 2022 About ten years ago, shortly after my wife and I moved to Waverly, I got invited to a gathering of pastors from around the […]
Jesus-Centered Freedom (Centered #7) October 30, 2022 I want to tell you up front: what I did with this sermon is something I had never done before, and something I will […]
Jesus-Centered Growth (Centered #6) October 23, 2022 I want to begin by thanking YouTube and Netflix. About five years ago YouTube tried its hand at original content, made a series, then […]
Desexualizing the Imago Dei (Imago Dei #5) October 9, 2022 About twenty years ago, a teenage girl made an appointment to meet with me. That was unusual, because at the time I was the […]
Ending the Imago Dei (Imago Dei #4) October 2, 2022 A few weeks before this series began, I put out a short video warning our church family that during the Imago Dei series we […]
Respecting the Imago Dei (Imago Dei #3) September 25, 2022 When I was in the fourth grade I had a love-hate relationship with recess. I loved it because I got to go outside. I […]
Having an Imago Dei Identity (Imago Dei #2) September 18, 2022 This past week I finished an audiobook — a memoir written by a woman who was born into a cult and grew up inside […]
The Value of the Imago Dei (Imago Dei #1) September 11, 2022 Today marks the twenty-first anniversary of September 11th. Twenty-one years ago, four planes crashed — into the Twin Towers, into the Pentagon, and into […]
Jesus-Centered Suffering (Centered #5) September 4, 2022 Years ago, when I was the young adult pastor at a church in another Iowa city, a young woman made an appointment to see […]
Jesus-Centered Transformation (Centered #4) August 28, 2022 This past week I had lunch with a college student I have gotten to know through campus ministry. He had been out of state […]
A Jesus-Centered Faith (Centered #3) August 21, 2022 About thirteen months after my wife and I got married — and about two months after our college graduation — we jumped in the […]
