2025

“How to Pastor the Pestering Conscience
—9Marks (forthcoming)

What Happens When We Turn the Keys?
—Heritage Bible Church (December 2025)

A North Star for Our Generation: A Tribute to Voddie Baucham,” with David Schrock
—Christ Over All (September, 2025)

Earn Your Enemies”: For Charlie, For My Church
—Heritage Bible Church (September 2025)

Mark 13 is Not About Jesus’s Second Coming
—Christ Over All (August 2025)

On Assisted Suicide: What I Said to My State Legislators
—Christ Over All (January 2025)

The Doctrine of Victimization and Its Destruction of Personal Agency: A Biblical Perspective,” with Ardel Caneday
—Christ Over All (January 2025)

2024

How Crowds Work Leaders, How Leaders Work Crowds
—Christ Over All (October 2024)

Mourning the Loss of a Father
—Heritage Bible Church (September 2024)

Make Civics Great Again: A Pastoral Guide to Casting Ballots Wisely
—Christ Over All (September 2024)

Tips for Shaping This Sunday’s Gathering
—9Marks (September 2024)

How We Plan for the Gospel to Shape Our Gathering
—9Marks (September 2024)

How the Gospel Shapes Our Liturgy
—9Marks (September 2024)

How the Gospel Shapes Our Gathering“—9Marks (August 2024), the first in a series originally published at Heritage Bible Church

Stir Up One Another to Love and Good Marriages
—Christ Over All (July 2024)

The Pastor as Local Theologian
—Christ Over All (February 2024)

Praying for the Peace of Israel: A Theological Proposal and a Prayer
—Christ Over All (January 2024)

2023

Socialism and the Twisted Legacy of Slavery: A Cautionary Tale from ‘The Great Society’
—Christ Over All (December 2023)

Red, White, and Blue Like Jazz
—Christ Over All (December 2023)

The Inception of Christian Nationalism: An Article on Articles on Articles
—Christ Over All (November 2023)

Talking To Our Children About Discipline
—Christ Over All (May 2023)

What Does Joshua 24:15 Mean?
—Crossway (May 2023; also in Spanish at TGC Coalición)

Poking Holes in the Egalitarian Beachball: Seven Arguments against Female Pastors
—Christ Over All (March 2023)

Abortion or Feticide: Words Matter When Life Hangs in the Balance
—Christ Over All (January 2023)

How One Nineties Youth Pastor Fought Abortion With A Song
—Christ Over All (January 2023)

2022

Jesus Understands: How the Sympathy of Christ Sustains the Church
—Christ Over All (December 2022)

Christ Over All—What’s In a Name?
—Christ Over All (September 2022)

Intersectionality and My Adoptive Family
—Desiring God  (August 2022) adapted in “3 Identities I Want My Interracial Kids To Know” at The Center for Biblical Unity

Why We Are Against Abortion
—Heritage Bible Church (July 2022)

2021

What’s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of Addition (Part 3)
—9Marks (June 2021; also in Spanish)

What’s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of the New Covenant (Part 2)
—9Marks (June 2021; also in Spanish)

What’s in the Water? — Combatting Superstition and Sentimentalism with Scripture (Part 1)
—9Marks (May 2021; also in Spanish), the first in a series originally published at Heritage Bible Church

How Not to Lose Yourself (and Your Soul) In A Crowd
—Heritage Bible Church (May 2021)

Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions eBook
—A preface by the elders at Heritage Bible Church for an eBook written by Kevin DeYoung (April 2021, also at TGC and Clearly Reformed)

Defining Justice
—Heritage Bible Church (January 2021)

2020

Give to God What Is God’s: Three Rules for (Political) Engagement
—Heritage Bible Church (November 2020)

Four Reasons to Preach through Colossians
—9Marks (February 2020)

2019

ReforMission: Churches that Changed Their Minds
—Mission Frontiers (November 2019)

2018

Moody: What Am I Supposed to Say?
—TrentHunter.net (February 2018)

2017

Romans in the Shadow of the Reformation
—The Gospel Coalition (March 2017)

What I said to my state’s legislators about assisted suicide
—Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (March 2017)

2016

Why Study the Book of Joshua?
—Crossway (August 2016; also at Crosswalk and in Spanish at TGC Coalición)

Marriage, Gender, Hell’s Gates, and Your Church Documents
—Canon and Culture (July 2016), related interview at Terry Mattingly’s On Religion here)

Five Questions to Ask Before You Consume Cannabis
—Desiring God (July 2016; also in Spanish at TGC Coalición)

A Prayer for Nations, Our Nation, and God’s Holy Nation
—The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (July 2016)

The Spiritual Gift You Don’t Notice Until It’s Gone
—The Gospel Coalition (May 2016)

Resources for Pilgrims in a Strange Land
—The Gospel Coalition (May 2016)

One-to-One: Psalm 121
—Matthias Media’s GoThereFor.com (March 2016)

One-to-One: Romans 5:1–11
—Matthias Media’s GoThereFor.com (January 2016)

2015

Troubled and Trusting: A Sunday Prayer after the Supreme Court Ruling on Marriage
—The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (July 2015)

Resources for Assembling Under the Word
—The Gospel Coalition (May 2015)

God at Work in Albuquerque and the Southwest
—The Gospel Coalition (March 2015)

The Importance of Contentment
—ExploreGod.com (March 2015)

2014

Five Tips for Better Public Scripture Readings
—9Marks (November 2014), also at Evangelium21

Did God Actually Say? Hearing God’s Voice on Homosexuality From the Storyline of Scripture
—The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (May 2014)

Resources for Wrestling with Contentment
—The Gospel Coalition (April 2014)

I Hope My Son’s Life Is in Danger
—The Gospel Coalition (February 2014), also at ChurchLeaders)

2013

A Deeper Look at What the Bible Says About Who God Is
—ExploreGod.com (June 2013)

Resources for One-Anothering the Word
—The Gospel Coalition (May 2013)

F.L.E.E.: A Strategy for Pursuing Sexual Purity
—The Gospel Coalition (March 2013)

2012

The Bible Eater: A Plan for Feasting on Christ in 2013
—The Gospel Coalition (December 2012)

Resources for The Cross-Shaped Christian Life
—The Gospel Coalition (March 2012)

2011

Bible Eater: A Plan for Feasting on Christ in 2012
—The Gospel Coalition (December 2011)

Clarus ‘11 Recap – ‘Scripture: God Speaks’
—The Gospel Coalition (May 2011)


Book Reviews

How Confident Are You in Applying Old Testament Scripture to New Covenant Saints?,” a review of Jason DeRouchie’s, Delighting in the Old Testament: Through Christ and for Christ. 
—9Marks (June 2025)

From Prisoner to Prince: The Joseph Story in Biblical Theology
—9Marks (February 2023)

What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
—The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (November 2015)

Churches Partnering Together: Biblical Strategies for Fellowship, Evangelism, and Compassion
—Books At A Glance (September 2014)

Church Elders: How to Shepherd God’s People Like Jesus
—The Gospel Coalition (September 2014)

Missing Jesus: Finding Your Life in His Great Story
—The Gospel Coalition (June 2014)

Finding a Vision for Your Church: Assembly Required
—Books At A Glance (February 2014)

A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home
—The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (September 2013)


Quoted, Cited, Etc.

Gen X Church Attendance Hit Hardest During COVID-19,” by S.A. McCarthy
—The Washington Stand (August 2023)

Best Books for Pastors in 2022
—9Marks (December 2022)

Big News At Moody Bible Institute: MBI Adopts The Chicago Statement On Biblical Inerrancy
—Patheos (March 2018)

Best Books for Pastors in 2018
—9Marks (December 2018)

Best Books for Pastors in 2017
—9Marks (December 2017)

The move to tweak church legal documents in the tense age of same-sex marriage,” by Terry Mattingly
—On Religion (August 2016)