Holiness Reeducation

Well I am heading off tomorrow for 12 days in Mother Russia! I am really excited to go and see what God has for us. I pray that I am going with eyes wide open, with my mouth shut, and with a willingness to step outside of my ordinary responses and understandings of my life […]

My latest sermon is up on my podcast. It is the final sermon in our 6 week series Why I am a Christian. This week it was all about the Kingdom of God. As always thanks for listening and I would love any feedback you have. Peace- G

Next Tuesday I am flying to Russia with 3 friends from my church and a group of about 6 other people from across the country. We are going with a wonderful organization called Children’s Hope Chest that works with orphans in Russia, the Ukraine, and Swaziland. We are going on a visioning trip where we […]

My latest podcast is online now. It is the 5th sermon in a series called “Why I am a Christian.” This has been a really challenging series for me and I have loved preaching it. It has essentially been 6 presentations of the Gospel from different perspectives each week. This week focused on the incarnation […]

The video above is a clip off of CNN where highly respected pastor and author John MacArthur and Emerging Church leader and pastor Doug Padgitt talk about whether or not Christians should participate in Yoga. The obvious tension of the subject is that Yoga is not simply an exercise technique but in fact a part […]

My latest podcast is up. It is my third sermon in a series called Why I am a Christian. It explores our need for community and how that need can only be satisfied within the body of Christ. I would love any feedback you have.

The venture into being a soccer family has been really humorous. Sophie had her first game today and it was definitely worth the price of admission. You have to love sporting events where a snack and juice box are the highlights. At the end of the game there was of course the spirit tunnel. We […]

Nothing guarantees readers or gets people excited like large theological terms. Hope your blood is going already! This past spring at the 2007 Wheaton College Theological Conference, Tony Jones, the national director of the Emergent Village presented a paper called, ““Whence Hermeneutic Authority?””. Tony’s appearance there caused a bit of unneeded stir, but apart from […]

When I was a kid we were always in church. Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, every time the doors were open we were there. I had a lot of energy as a child and sometimes making it through a whole worship service was a bit difficult. One time in particular my dad, who has […]