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Hello all! I haven’t done a more personal post in a while, and so I wanted to give you all an update. But first, an invitation: On Tuesday, July...

It is the season of the World Cup, and it is not unusual to see packed bars and restaurants full of people screaming, jumping up and down, or, just...

For today’s post, I’ve extracted twelve brief passages from my new book (with co-author Keith Krell): God’s Purposes in Our Pain: 10 Ways God Uses...

In a previous post, I narrated what I called the through-line of Reformed spirituality as one guided and governed by love. There is a long...

Today is launch day for God’s Purposes in Our Pain: 10 Ways God Uses Suffering for Our Good . Keith Krell (my co-author) and I have been eagerly...

8 years 70 residential students More than 100 community dinners Hundreds of one-on-one meetings And approximately 350 morning prayer meetings ...

Ecclesiastes 3 tells us there is a time for everything. There is a time or season for laughing, speaking and dancing — and we typically resonate...

“Here I am again. What does it mean to do this in Christ?” This was my thought as I rode my carbon-fiber bicycle on the streets of Torrance on...

The primary question I hear when I go to conferences, or when people in full-time ministry reach out to me, is “What does spiritual formation look...

Alyson Pryor brings a breath of fresh air into an evangelical world often obsessed with activity and achievement. With her training as a spiritual...

There are many things that sound right that are not. I find that for many, there is a kind of feeling that is used when reading Scripture or...

When I first came to seminary, I called myself an Arminian. That wasn’t true, really. The reality was that I just didn’t like people I knew who...

In a wonderful recent episode of the Dallas Willard Podcast, we get to listen to Dallas teach about what it looks like to bring spiritual formation...

I always felt so bad for my kids when they would wander into our room, complaining about how much their legs hurt while they tried to sleep....

If you have read my blog for any recent length of time, you have probably heard me talking about the importance of a developmental spirituality....

This is a Q&A blog post by Talbot School of Theology’s Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question Hi Dr. Craig, I appreciate...

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will...

Masquil de Asaf. Escucha, pueblo mío, mi ley; Inclinad vuestro oído a las palabras de mi boca. Abriré mi boca en proverbios; Hablaré cosas...

My friend, Pastor Joby Martin, has a new book out about manhood. In a world where young men are in crisis, and where there are a lot of sources of...

Welcome to 2026! I hope that the year ahead is full of joy and thankfulness for all that God has done in the past year and will do in the year...

Perhaps the most confused notion in spiritual formation today is the idea that you can just give people things to do to grow, as if spiritual...

For various reasons, I’ve been thinking about shame recently, and I was taken aback by this quote from John Chysostom, on Romans 1:17: But he who...

I will often use the language of “true self” and “false self,” because I think it gets at something important. The problem is that others use this...

“Let’s start a movement!” is what I started my class session with one day in Fall 2025. To a room full of university students, their attention was...

For those of you who don’t know, I have entered a new season in my academic life. When I posted the update about my new role as the Director of the...