Nick Vogel
Nick Vogel writes Whole Christianity, where he works out how faith lands differently depending on how a person is wired. He serves at a Vineyard church across worship, production, and finances, preaches and teaches there on occasion, writes original worship songs, and keeps a sustained study through books of the Bible that feeds most of what he publishes here. The personality material, Enneagram and Myers-Briggs, isn't a system he's selling. It's a way of naming why the same passage reaches two people by different roads, and why "just try harder" keeps failing sincere people who are wired for something else.
124 pieces published.
An Offering That Gets Back Up
Paul spends eleven chapters on God's mercy, then asks for your body. The offering he means is the week you were already going to live.
What They Didn't Pray For
Peter and John had just been arrested and threatened. The church prayed about it, and never once asked for the threats to stop.
Level Ground
David isn't asking God for directions here. He's asking for ground he can stand on.
Your Heart Follows
Jesus puts the treasure first and the heart second. Most of us have it the other way around.
Unity Comes Down
David reaches for two pictures of unity. Oil running down a head, and dew falling on a mountain. Both of them fall.
Holy Friction
The word Hebrews uses for "spur one another on" is the same one Luke uses for the argument that split Paul and Barnabas.
In a Spiritual Dry Season? I'm In and Out of Them Too
A dry season is a stretch where you're doing everything right and feeling none of it. It's normal, it's survivable, and it might be saying something worth hearing.
The SOAP Bible Study Method: How I've Done My Devotions for 15 Years
SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer. A youth pastor taught it to me when I was a brand-new believer, and it's still how I meet God most mornings.
Myers-Briggs Bible Characters: Why Every List You Find Disagrees
Search for the Myers-Briggs type of a Bible character and you'll get a confident answer. Search twice and you'll get two. Here's why, and what the exercise is still good for.
ISTP Bible Characters: Four People Who Wanted to See It Work
Scripture never assigns anybody four letters, so nobody in it is an ISTP. It does keep telling stories about people who needed evidence, or who fixed the problem while everybody else was still discussing it.