Holiness Reeducation

It has been a long and hard weekend and I am full of randomness because of it, so here we go.

I updated my podcast today with a sermon on John 14. It is a part of a 3 week series where we preached the same text each week. It was a cool series. Check it out here.

I broke my son’s leg on Friday. We were going down a slide together and he stuck out his foot and it got caught and now he is in a cast. It really stinks to see your kids in pain, even when it is more inconvenient than anything else. Of course they made the cast Carolina Blue to add insult to injury. I requested Terrapin red but it turns out UNC hospitals don’t carry it.

We first saw an intern orthopedist at the clinic and the thing is I didn’t believe a word that came out of his mouth. When the big boy doctor came back he said essentially the same thing, but I believed every word. It is like that at the church too. If an intern pastor does something it so doesn’t even count. If the associate says or does something it is mildly acceptable, but if the senior pastor says or does the exact same thing it is worthy of being written in stone and stashed in the Ark of the Covenant so Indiana Jones can go and find it.

Speaking of which, I am really excited for the new Indiana Jones movie, but I realized the other day that Harrison Ford is older than my dad. That is weird. My dad is already retired after almost 40 years working for the government and his joints lock up so he has a hard time with steps. I hope Harrison has been training a bunch because one errant fall and he will need a hip replacement.

Incredible game 7 yesterday between the Celtics and Cavs. I am glad Boston won because I really want to see the Celtics and Lakers in the Finals again. Paul Pierce absolutely changed his legacy as a player yesterday with that performance. He has never gotten a ton of credit for being an incredible player because he has never really won anything. But he was The Truth yesterday. I think Ray “Jesus Shuttlesworth” Allen might want to start talking up the TNT guys because he looks to be about 18 months from joining Reggie Miller and Steve Kerr in the all time long distance shooting broadcast booth.

Don’t you love it when Christian’s answer questions by quoting long passages of scripture to you, especially when the question wasn’t a theological one? This happened the other day with a pastor I know who asked a question of a friend about another employee and was sent this passage in response. Is the answer supposed to obvious in a passage where the Ark is stolen, God smites the peoples with tumors and curse is on the land. Only Christians do this. Have you ever asked a non-Christian a question and had them email you a passage from Dickens or Melville?

I have been reading about 6 different books at the same time this month. They are Organic Community, The Fall of the Evangelical Nation, McMafia, The Church in Transition, and The Way Forward: Rediscovering the Classic Message of Holiness. I am a little book scatterbrained with my reading sometimes, but all of these books have been bouncing my head around for a month or two as I read them, think about them, compare them to each other, and talk through them with others. I will post some reviews on a couple of them soon, because I think they are really important books. If anyone else is reading these or has read them let me know so we can chat.

That is enough rambling for today, I need to go hangout at the park and look for unsuspecting children to put in casts…….