Holiness Reeducation

I put up a new podcast yesterday, a sermon I preached right after Easter. I will try and get 3 sermons up this week and get caught up. (Wednesday Update – I just added a second sermon as well. It is my first Easter sermon) Peace- Greg

I had a chance the other day to go and view Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled. This pseudo documentary examines the scientific furor between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Ben Stein (famous for being a gameshow host on Win Ben Stein’s money, being a political activist, working as a speech writer for Nixon and Ford, and [...]

CS Lewis in the Screwtape Letters wrote, “A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others…. Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as [...]

Found an awesome blog taking off on the ever popular stuff____people like phenomenon in the blog world. It is called Stuff Christians Like and it is so witty and sarcastic and true. My favorite blog for daily reading is the Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight. He is an uberblogger and incredibly insightful. Go here and [...]

This past weekend at Christ Church we launched Mission 1:27, our Russian Orphan Sponsorship Ministry. In partnership with Children’s HopeChest we are now sponsoring an orphanage in Slobodskoy Russia. I visited this orphanage back in November along with 3 other leaders from Christ Church. From the moment we entered the orphanage the neediness of this [...]

In my conversations with some friends lately, we have been discussing some of the really strange stories in the Bible. The Bible is full of stories that seem to make absolutely no sense, at least at first glance. And then when you give them a second glance, you get even more confused. Take for instance [...]

So many things have been going on, that it seemed time for some ramblings. So here you go… Great NCAA Championship Game last night. Have to give it to the Jayhawks who never gave up. It was really classy of Roy Williams, whose team had just lost to Kansas, to be there and root on [...]

Yesterday as my friend Shay and I were talking about films (as we often do) I began to recount the role of clergy in films. There are a lot of different clergy roles in film and television. I don’t think however that I have ever talked about the good, the bad, and the sublime when [...]