Holiness Reeducation

Today we find ourselves once again in the Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight, a book written to aid us in our efforts to effectively read the Bible. At the end of the book, after Scot has laid out his hermeneutics and pointed out many of the traps that we all fall into in our reading [...]

My wife pointed out to me last night that I forgot to add my weather update to my Monday ramblings. I am shocked that I didn’t receive hundreds of emails from a desparate and longing reader base. Oh well. If you don’t like the weather wait 5 minutes So yesterday morning I was leaving the [...]

Thanksgiving is in the air. From the sound of turkeys begging for their lives to the sound of cranberries rejoicing at their opportunity to finally meet their food destiny and all the people with closets full of pilgrim costumes rejoicing, it is time for some Thanksgiving.  I am sure later this week I will have [...]

I uploaded my sermon from this past Sunday, my installation service at DCC.  In the sermon I focus on the process of taking our head knowledge and turning into real experience and understanding. I also talk a bit about the vision God has for our church and my role in that. As always, I love [...]

Growing up I used to think that one of the most important questions in anyone’s spiritual life was, “How often do you read the Bible?’ After serving pastoring for a while, however, that question has changed. I know think that one of the most important questions in anyone’s spiritual life is “How well do you [...]

Maryland won and is the highest ranked ACC team and they might not win another game all season, the Redskins as I have predicted for three weeks lost and I will be very surprised if they make the playoffs, Hillary Clinton might be Sec. of State and for some reason this doesn’t terrify me, I [...]

In the Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight challenges the ways we read the Bible and offers great insight into how we can best try to listen to and live within the story of Scripture. One of the really interesting sections early on in the book focuses on shortcuts that we take to reading the Bible. These [...]

Thanks for all the comments on the video blog. I had many people here in Indiana comment on it. Evidently for some, they didn’t realize there was so much corn around. Best comment all week was from David who suggested that the church start growing corn on the property until we build. That was awesome. [...]

This week I recorded a video blog to show some of what life is like here in Chesterton IN. It is in two part and involves a lot of mobile blogging with my computer and web camera in my car. Very exciting. Hope that you enjoy!

I am a little sad the election is over. I will miss the SNL skits with Tina Fey. I will miss all the debates. I will even miss John McCain and his stiffest white man alive demeanor. As I watched the election results last night, however, it was hard not to feel like things have [...]