Holiness Reeducation

June has been a thoroughly amusing month, as I have spent a week at the beach with my family, a week in Birmingham, Al with high school students, and we have celebrated numerous important world events such as the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Draft, US Open, World Cup and College World Series. So […]

Book Review: Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev. Many of you will remember the character in Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz who was called Mark, the cussing pastor. His full identity is Mark Driscoll and he is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA. Recently Mark released a work called Confessions of […]

Well, once again today homosexuality and the church is back in the news after the latest vote of the Episcopal leadership in Ohio. According to reports, a last ditch effort at maintaining unity was struck at the gathering of leaders, as they voted to recommend that church leaders "exercise restraint" when considering gay clergy for […]

Well we knew it was coming. The Republican party, with a strong push from President Bush, finally pushed into the Senate a Constitutional Ammendment seeking to ban marriage between anyone other than a man and a woman. If you haven’t heard about it, check out this article which gives a brief synopsis. So the question […]

I am not sure if what I am talking about is angst (a feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression), malaise (a vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness, or a general sense of depression or unease) or cynicism (an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a […]

As a worship leader there are many tensions that exist in planning and leading worship. There is a tension between trying to lead with excellence without making it a show. There is a tension of balancing multiple services while still leaving room for the Spirit to work. There is the tension of wanting to use […]

I was recently contacted by Precipice Magazine, and online Emerging Church magazine, about publishing my review of David Fitch's The Great Giveaway. You can check out my book review here and make sure you check out the magazine. They have some great interviews and articles. Peace- G

This post is going to be a little hard to write without getting all upset and emotional. When I was in college something really hard happened to me one night. My favorite baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles, were playing in Yankee stadium, October 9, 1996 in the first game of the ALCS. It was the […]