Holiness Reeducation

I have to share this story from one of my friends. So my friends are selling their house. They have had lot of showings lately and were somewhat tired of being run from their house all of the time. They got a call yesterday to have a showing at 2PM. They called and pushed it […]

Thought this was hysterical

There are a number of books out on the market about the Emerging Church. There are ones written by Emergent Authors (McLaren, Padgitt, Jones, etc..) and then there are books about Emergent. Having read a wide range of both categories, none compares to Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger in actually talking […]

I have long debated with several of my friends the greatest driving song of all time. The kind of song that has you drumming on your dashboard, blaring your crackling stock speakers in your Honda and risking a serious fine from local law enforcement for your excessive speed. I have narrowed the list to a […]

A friend sent me this link (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/003/13.26.html) about Bruce Wilkinson’s failures in Africa. Bruce, as many of you know is the author of several books, the best known of them being The Prayer of Jabez. This book which elevated Wilkinson to something of a celebrity in many evangelical circles expounds on the idea of praying […]

On the blog Imatatio Christ, which you can find on my blogroll I found this (http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=112) interesting article about the new group The Evangelical Climate Initiative. This group headlined by a number of well known and influential Evangelical leaders has come together to take a position of concern and action in regards to global warming. […]

I just read an interesting article in the Washington Post about the struggle of Chinese bloggers seeking political change and reform in China. In a country where the government controls all forms of mass media, blogging has become an outlet of expression for millions of Chinese. But, the politically charged are met with distrust and […]

Note: This blog is taken from a sermon I delivered on 2/21/06 Do you know the SNL skit with Christopher Walken as the producer helping Blue Oyster Cult record the song Don’t Fear the Reaper? In that skit Walken keeps coming back time and time again and saying, “I got a fever and the only […]

I was having lunch with a fellow pastor yesterday and we had a long conversation about the life span of churches. All churches seems to go through a similar life cycle of birth, growth, prosperity, decline and then death. The life cylce goes for different lengths, not everyone has the same experiences, but it is […]

That’s it, I am officially insulted by NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. It is insulting to have them act as if we don’t live in an age of information and technology. Their decision to tape delay the broadcast of all events and then package them in this slick 4 hour presentation is ridiculous. Am I […]