Author: Paul Berger
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the window of our words
There are so many days where “information runs like excess rain.” Between seminary, student ministry, personal reflections, and a new season of marriage, one idea doesn’t always quickly emerge among the dozens of topics I come across. But what I reflect on below has been forming for a while. There’s a lot of reasons why…
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Now what?
(This blog is structured a little more like a devotional of Galatians/Romans so I encourage you to reflect on the Scripture passages while reading this). What should I do? In some way or another, this the question we’re all asking as we go about our lives. Whether you are faced with a difficult choice or…
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back to the drawing board
red ink change I remember how proud I was of some of the rough draft papers I submitted in college. A week later, the paper given back to me looked like a crime scene: covered in red. Over time, I began to dread the red ink markups, even when professors would write encouraging things. To…
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Out of bounds
In the first Dr. Strange Marvel movie, a rich, playboy doctor has a near-death experience and a career-ending injury that sets him on a journey which changes everything. He discovers a world of mystical arts, magical powers, and battles to save the multiverse. At one point in the movie, Dr. Strange casts a spell that…
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Gentle and lowly part 2
Response to Public Criticism As much as Gentle and Lowly has been a gift of Gospel-centered discipleship and devotional reorientation in the chaotic, polarized church in the West, some within Reformed camps have criticized the book. To appreciate this book fully and critically, I would like to address some of those critiques here. I find…
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Gentle and Lowly
I have found Gentle and Lowly to be a profound book in my discipleship jounrey thus far. Few books have such a powerful voice and transcendent-like influence to shape Christians toward the heart and charcter of God as Dane Ortlund’s book has proven to be in my life, the lives of others in my community,…
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come out come out wherever you are
On the Run In the story of Jonah, one of God’s very own representatives turns from God’s calling and stubbornly tries to escape. Instead of going to the violent, unjust Assyrian city of Nineveh, Jonah goes as far as he can the opposite direction. Anyone who reads the story can quickly identify the foolishness of…
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are you dreaming?
A People of Story One of my favorite movies as a teenager was Inception. The premise of the film was that there were dreams within dreams, worlds within worlds; ultimately, one couldn’t trust that the reality around them was real and true. Throughout the story, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character pursues one mission above all else: returning…
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marketplace theology
As I look around at my surroundings, I find that the landscape of the pluralistic, diverse society of modern America often mirrors aspects of a marketplace. In the marketplace of ideas, one worldview or rivaled by several other alternate ways of viewing the world just as food or goods of one vendor stand in a…
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the Ballot & the Bible
So very few books are able to accomplish what The Ballot and The Bible has accomplished. With brevity and accessibility, Kaitlyn Schiess simultaneously observes, critiques, and teaches hermeneutics through the lens of American history. In all of the book, she creates open-ended questions while also articulating a supporting collection of ideas on how to faithfully…
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