13. Eclesiología: Practicando el Reino de Dios

June 11, 2025

An English version is available here. “Iglesia” no es necesariamente una palabra popular a principios del siglo XXI. Ya sea el individualismo moderno, el personalismo/pragmatismo posmoderno, el revivalismo/teología evangélica que enfatiza las relaciones personales (privadas), o la fragilidad de gran parte de lo que se considera “iglesia” en Occidente, la eclesiología a menudo se considera […]


Lesson 6: The Mystery of Christ is Paul’s Ministry (Ephesians 3:1-13)

February 26, 2025

God gifted Paul with the ministry to proclaim the good news of the mystery of Christ to the gentiles, and Paul is a prisoner for their sake. Paul is a servant of the gospel to declare the multi-faceted wisdom of God in the Messiah to the powers, and this mission is carried out through the […]


Lesson 1: On Reading Ephesians (Ephesians 1:1-2)

January 15, 2025

Ephesians is Paul’s most comprehensive letter. It was intended for circulation among various congregations for public reading in their assemblies. The first three chapters unfold the mystery of God in Christ by the power of the Spirit as the plan of salvation, and the final three chapters invite believers to participate in that mystery by […]


Radio Sermons from 1978-1979: Delivered in the Philadelphia, PA, Market

September 24, 2024

In the Fall of 1978, I was attending Westminster Theological Seminary (seeking a sixty-six hour degree in theology) and preaching for the Northeast Philadelphia Church of Christ. I was twenty-one years old. The church asked me to give a series of radio lessons on a station that covered the Philadelphia market. They hoped it would […]


Lesson 22: You Have Come to Mount Zion, the Heavenly Jerusalem

June 19, 2024

Hebrews 12:18-29 You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, […]


Transforming Encounters: Baptism, Assembly, and the Lord’s Supper

June 5, 2024

This book, accessible here, was published in September, 2023. In May, 2024, I was asked to summarize it for a combined adult Bible class at the Homewood Church of Christ. That lesson is available below.


Searching for the Pattern: Six Videos from the Ray Evans Seminar

May 1, 2024

The following videos are five lecture/sermon presentations and one Q&A from the Ray Evans Seminar held at the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, on April 12-14, 2024. The presentations are based on the book Searching for the Pattern, published in 2019.


Lesson 14: The Earthly Sanctuary and the Heavenly Pattern

April 17, 2024

Hebrews 9:1-10 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies. In […]


Ignatius of Antioch: Assembly as Witness Against the Powers

February 23, 2024

Therefore, make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown, and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those […]


How We Read the Bible in Churches of Christ

February 14, 2024

Wes McAdams leads the ministry at Radically Christian. He interviewed John Mark Hicks about hermeneutics, reading the Bible, and the prospects of unity within the Restoration Movement. You can find the interview here.