My Prayer for This Advent Season

I pray that we learn to not look at people of other creeds, races, political perspectives, or sexual orientations as the enemy. I pray that we learn to listen and see the pain and hurt of other people of other experiences and contexts, without feeling the need to correct them on “the facts”. I pray […]

A Unique Substitute

If you know me and have read some of my writings, you will know that writing about the depth of the atonement is part of my passion. This verse is Paul interpreting Psalm 69:9 as Christ-centered prosopological exegesis (pre-text of Jesus speaking). With this hermeneutic (way of interpreting the verse), Paul is saying that the […]

The Doctrine of Accommodation & Penal Substitutionary Atonement

6 Minute Read If you know me and are familiar with my writings, you know that atonement theory (the theological ideas about what happened through Christ’s work and how the cross fits in) is one of the main things that I have wrestled through (I have two eBooks about the atonement). So what happened with […]

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month 2022

January is “Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month.” Recently, a friend contacted me because they were having a hard time discussing the spiritual trauma they had endured with someone close to them. This person desired a deep relationship but did not comprehend how certain aspects of the Christian environments they were a part of triggered PTSD in […]

What if Jesus Doesn’t Seem to Look Like God in the Old Testament?

This article will tackle how some people seem to communicate God as if Jesus is different than the God that they see in the Old Testament, and how we can read the Old Testament in light of Jesus. 7 Minute Read There is a moment after Jesus rose from the dead in the book of […]

“The Restorative Vocation” – a Section from “By His Wounds”

This section is taken and adapted from chapter 10 (“Retributive or Restorative God”) of David Ruybalid’s Free eBook ‘By His Wounds”. Download the eBook for free Here 2 Corinthians 5:2121 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. It is […]

By His Wounds – Free eBook

I recently had a relative send me a meme. It had a priest sitting down and talking with a little boy. In the meme, the priest said to the boy, “God gave birth to himself to kill himself as a sacrifice to appease himself so that he would no longer have to throw us into […]

Lukewarm Christians with Good Intentions

I remember growing up and going to summer camp. oftentimes the speaker, wanting to bring conviction, would often quote Revelation 3:15-16. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit […]

Odin & Ash Wednesday – an Apologetic Post

One thing that I have found is that in all camps, from people who fully bought on to their religious system to skeptics of religious systems, is that many ideas seem like they connect because of limited information, but when you pick apart the facts at a more robust research level, the ideas fall apart. […]

A Theology of January 6th, 2021

John 18 36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” 37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the […]