Holiness Reeducation

Last night Shay, Loren, David and I ventured to Raleigh for the Church Basement Roadshow with Tony Jones, Doug Padgitt, and Mark Scandrette. It was truly a unique experience (except that the Jesus for President show that Shay went to last week was very similar in format) and very entertaining. Here is a video from […]

Sorry this week’s ramblings and links are a day late, I know many of you had the entire rhythm of your life upset by my tardiness. Yesterday was 7 hour staff planning meeting day. The meeting was good. The meeting was long. The meeting took away my capacity for proper cognitive function. So here you […]

On the blog Stuff Christians Like, they had a post the other day about the different roles of the Pastor’s wife. He suggested that most pastor’s wives fall into one of three categories: Sunny Rainbow Happy Lady, The Grumpiest Person on Earth, and Keyser Soze. The post was problematic in a couple of ways. First, […]

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise […]

Dancing with ACL Injuries Aren’t you glad you are not an NFL head coach. Jim Zorn the rookie head coach of the Washington Redskins discovered what it means to be the top man of an NFL team real quick this week. On the first play, of the first practice, on the first day, of training […]

Not a day goes by without a major article chronicling the fluctuating and unfriendly housing market here in the US. Major lenders are getting government aide to stay afloat. Some housing markets have experienced such a decline that many people are simply giving their house back to the bank. Foreclosures are at an all time […]

Just got back late last night from another out of town venture and I am tired. But I am thankful, blessed, and ready for the week. So here are some thoughts to get the week rolling. There usually isn’t much of a debate about this, in my life, but this weekend affirmed it: Sandwiches are […]

I have been spending a lot of time in the book of Joshua this week. Joshua is a complicated book. There are some tough theological questions about genocide and the will of God in this book. But, I haven’t really been concentrating on those issues. What I have been thinking about and wrestling with is […]

I put up a new podcast today of a sermon I preach a couple of weeks ago. Click Here

I’m back, rested, tan, and ready to blog. We had better get our rapture emails ready because this machine could mean that the apocalypse is upon us. I am not sure what an atom smasher does, but it sounds like Jack Van Impe will soon be calling it the beast. Magnets 17 miles in circumference? […]