Loving Sinners: Biblical Thoughts on Responding to Sin With a knowing wink and a smile that was too practiced, the preacher said, “Hate the sin, but love the sinner.” This irritated me. I couldn’t tell if he was being snarky, condescending, or...
How to Hear from God For most of my life I was taught that God speaks to us through the Bible, and we speak to him through prayer. Together, these two one-way communication channels can result in a dialogue of sorts. While this is correct, it’s...
News Release: Peter DeHaan Wins Halo Magazine Writing Contest Follower of Jesus shares his story and spiritual journey in Christian publication. Mattawan, Michigan, January 15, 2014—Peter DeHaan is the first place winner of Halo Magazine’s first...
How Well Do We Celebrate God? The prophet Amos had some condemning words for the people of Israel. Through Amos, God unleashed a lament against his chosen people. He says he despises their religious festivals, and their assemblies are a stench to...
Notable Women in the Bible Two weeks ago I encouraged you to have a Bible reading plan for the new year—and I felt a bit guilty for saying it. This wasn’t because I gave bad advice, but because I hadn’t yet figured out my own plan. I try to never...
Movie Review: Escape From Hell Reviewed by Peter DeHaan Escape from Hell is an evangelistic drama in which a skeptical doctor is determined to disprove the existence of the afterlife. Driven to desperation through a series of events, the...
Do You Worship a Modern-Day Idol? The prophet Habakkuk, like many Old Testament mouthpieces for God, talked about the folly of a person who fashioned an object and then turned around to worship it. In essence, these ancient people would make...
Accidental or Intentional Christianity? A guy who ponders deep theological thoughts recently shared two concepts with me: intentional Protestantism and accidental Protestantism. Both relate to the Reformation of the Christian church, some five...
News: Top Ten Posts for 2013 Check out my top blog posts from last year. The comments feature on these posts are still open, so feel free to leave a note. The top ten posts for 2013 are: Great Teaching, But… (Visiting Church #49) 52 Churches: The...
News: Bible Reading Plans for 2014 The 2014 Bible reading plans are now available: Read the New Testament in 2014. Read the Old Testament in 2014. Read the entire Bible in 2014 (our brand new reading plan). If these are too big a bite for you to...
