Holiness Reeducation

Let me just begin today’s ramblings with the weather update. I shot this live and on location. Shepherds and God Yesterday I preached on the unlikeliest of messengers of the Good News, the shepherds. The reality that God used smelly, grungy, uneducated, disrespected and disregarded shepherds to be the heralds of the birth of the […]

In reading All the Saints Adore Thee by Dr. Bruce Shelley this morning, I encountered a statement that stirred up a struggle I have been having lately. Shelley says, “Over the years Christianity has probably suffered more from half-hearted followers than from hard-headed scoffers.” This statement came in a reflection he wrote about Martin Luther. […]

God in Flesh Happy third week of Advent! The celebration of the incarnation is rapidly approaching and I have been thinking alot about how I can best prepare myself. Amidst all the “holiday shopping” there are plent of Holy Day activities to occupy ourselves with instead. I have been especially mindful of the idea of […]

Thanks for so many comments and so much input from the previous post. I have tried to read through all of the comments, weigh the different films and their credentials and come up with a list for people to vote on. The list is going to be broken down into different categories to help it […]

One thing that has been a really nice change in my move to the Midwest is the return of basketball to my life. Amazingly, living in the college basketball capital of the world I rarely ever picked up a basketball. Here I have been playing with our church team in the church league (surprisingly decent […]

At lunch yesterday my friend Patrick told me that I needed a new list post on the blog. It has been a long time since we debated the trivial, so here is a little mid week gift for you. Patrick suggested we come up with the list of the best bad movies of all time […]

Thanksgiving, my birthday, and the beginning of Advent, it was a big weekend. It was a very nice Thanksgiving and a wonderful birthday. It was beautiful as all the children were together in worship singing for us and they led the congregation in singing me Happy Birthday. All in all it was a festive, tiring, […]