Imagine the scene. The prophet Jeremiah has been arrested for prophesying that Babylon would conquer and destroy the city of Jerusalem and take its king, Zedekiah, as a prisoner to Babylon. Outside the city walls is the massive Babylonian army, fresh off a resounding defeat of the Egyptian army who had come to drive them…

On Sunday, April 25, New City Church is celebrating its tenth anniversary! This church launched on Easter Sunday in 2011 (actual date was April 24, 2011). While this means New City is still a new church, it is also quite ancient. This is because every true church is both ancient and modern. Our faith is…

I love Scripture. All of it. I am fascinated by it. To have 40 or so authors write separate pieces of the story over 1600 years in three different languages, yet produce a story as unified as the story of the Bible is is nearly incomprehensible. It spans myriad genres of literature. There is wisdom…

When I was a teen, bar codes—those “Universal Product Codes” that are printed on everything we purchase—were a little over a decade old. They were also said to be the mark of the beast the apostle John mentions in Revelation 13. Since John said that the time was coming when one could neither buy nor…

There has been an alarming increase in anti-Asian violence in our country. It seems that every day we learn of a new incident in which a person of Asian descent—often an older men or woman—was viciously attacked and told he or she does not “belong here”. This sort of violence is not new; the target…