Holiness Reeducation

Well, the official announcement came out yesterday: The found Jesus’ tomb! Even more, his bones, his parents bones, and the bones of Mary Magdalene and perhaps Jesus’ son were there. Or, the Discovery Channel held a press conference to hype up a TV special they are doing and an accompanying book and they want to […]

Overflowing with dishes encrusted in yesterday’s meals A  sink full of dishes waiting to be cleansed A passerby may think they were clean, but reality is found in the pungent odor of decay How can we be so blind? We miss the truth of our creation. Dirty dishes aren’t useful to anyone. You can fill […]

In the reading today from Deuteronomy 8:1-10 there is a staggering verse. I have read this passage before, but this time it absolutely hit me when I read it. Deuteronomy 8:2, “Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order […]

The lectionary text for this week is Luke 4 and the story of Jesus facing temptations in the wilderness. This is such a familiar text, but when you really look at Luke’s account, there are some interesting parts that are easy to miss. At the beginning of the passage Luke says, “Jesus, full of the […]

It is Ash Wednesday and Lent is officially upon us. I wrote last week that there is always a little bit of apprehension for me as I enter Lent. That is true, but there is also a sense of excitement and allure that comes from it. I have been on a number of diets in […]

One of the reasons I became involved with the emerging church was that it was a community where I found people who cared about the whole message of the gospel. That is certainly not an exclusive claim about the emerging church, but what I found there had a profound impact on me because of the […]

As I approach Lent each year, I begin to feel a little bit nervous. Lent is a busy time in the church, but that isn’t why I get nervous. Easter is coming up, but that doesn’t make me nervous either. What makes me nervous approaching Lent is that which awaits me in the Wilderness. I […]

Well, today is officially one year of Holiness Reeducation. I began blogging, oddly enough on Valentine’s Day a year ago. In this year blogging has become part of the rhythm of my life. It has become as much a part of who I am, how I express myself, and many of my relationships that it […]

The Pentagon has announced that it is scrapping plans to build over 1000 amphibious assault vehicles that they have been developing for the Marine Corps. Why are they scrapping these plans, you might ask? Well it seems that after 10 years in development, over 1.7 Billion Dollars, and an $80 million dollar bonus to the […]

Interesting article in the Washington Post today about the continued expansion of many mega and gigachurches into the world of Satellite broadcasting and multiple campuses. In case you don’t know, a gigachurch is a church with over 10,000 attendees. In the 80′s and 90′s we saw the birth of megachurches, those with over 2,000 attendees, […]