I decided recently not to renew my hosting fees for this website, which means that it will be gone on May 19th (In the meantime, I’ve worked on archiving everything over at caseylute.wordpress.com, and that should be up shortly. It’ll look a little different, but the content will all be there.). But before this website goes [...]

I appreciated this section from Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Preaching & Preachers, on an often-overlooked aspect of ministerial training. Having been forced to endure this myself, I now think it is so valuable an experience that I would recommend all potential pastors voluntarily pursue it: [The preacher] also needs a certain amount of general knowledge and experience [...]

During most summers of my childhood, my family would travel up to Seattle for a short vacation. Our primary activity was always attending Seattle Mariners baseball games at the Kingdome. During the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, the Mariners were always terrible, and there wasn’t much optimism among the fanbase.1 The games were so poorly [...]

This year will be the third year that our unashamedly Christian and entirely Gentile1 family will have an all-out Hanukkah party. This might seem out of place to some, but we don’t think so. There’s nothing about Hanukkah that sets it at odds with Christianity or Christmas. In fact, the only mention of Hanukkah in [...]

In case you’re looking for some reading to increase your understanding of the Bible’s teachings on the birth of Christ, I thought I would direct you back toward a collection of posts I did last year about the Christmas texts in the Bible. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas… The Chronology of Christmas The Virgin Birth Prophecy [...]

My wife and I are currently in the process of trying to adopt a baby in order to grow our family and because we believe it is a good way for us to live out the implications of the gospel. Of course, adopting is an expensive thing to do, and though we have saved a [...]

I recently saw a trailer for a movie coming out this fall, and it’s based on Augustine’s Confessions. It’s hard to tell if it will actually be good, but it at least looks like it has potential. You can see it here: One point of note is that Augustine (along with most of the other [...]

In the wake of the terrible tragedy at the movie theater in Colorado, it seems to me that two main themes for discussion have emerged. As I listen to radio reports and read on the internet, the first theme that I see popping up regularly is that of gun control. Those in favor of stricter [...]

This last Sunday I preached at my church for the second consecutive week. This summer we have been taking some time to look at the smaller books of the Bible that often get ignored, and for the last two weeks I presented the book of Jude to our congregation.1 During my second sermon, in applying [...]

Last fall, for the first time in my life, I decided to grow a beard. Following in the footsteps of great men like my father and Charles Spurgeon, and with the blessing of my wife, I stopped shaving for a while, made it past the “itchy phase,” and grew a beard I could be proud [...]