Holiness Reeducation

lenten-devotions-for-web.pdf Last year I wrote a 40 day devotional book for Lent. I think I made it available online for those who were interested. Anyways, if you are interested feel free to download and use it during this Lenten season. Have a blessed Ash Wednesday.

Hey Folks, I am take a week off of blogging, parenting, pastoring, and a bunch of other responsibilities to hang out with my wife in Colorado. Check back next week for details and regular blogs. Peace- Ski Master G

I am reading a really good book right now called Church Unique by Will Mancini. The premise of the book is that many of our struggles in the church over the past decades have been the result of trying to be someone else. Each church is unique, it is a particular and impossible to replicate […]

If you have ever had the joy of going on a trip with Youth Works you know Taco Tuesday well. If not, you too can make today Taco Tuesday! Enjoy a little Mexican for lunch and a siesta afterwards. It’s okay, tell them your pastor said it was a good idea. Anyways, here are some […]

Happy President’s Day! Nobody wishes each other happy President’s Day. I think we should each celebrate our own favorite presidents on this day. My Secret Favorite President Today I celebrate President Chester A. Arthur. Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President. He became president after James Garfield was assasinated. He was rather unknown entering the  […]

Following up on some comments I made on Monday there is good article today about the fine line that President Obama’s administration is walking in regards to church and state. Right now both sides of the aisle seem to be waiting to see if Obama is going to really do something different or if he […]

Romans 7 has always been one of my favorite scripture passages. Paul’s honesty about his struggles, “I do the things I don’t want to do but the things I want to do those I don’t do”, sounds somewhat like a Dr. Suess book but it is encouraging and hopeful. We all know the struggle of […]

Here are some links for the week… We are coming up on the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth. Did you know they kept the clothes he died in, the bullet that killed him and the mattress that he died on? Interesting article Valentine’s Day is almost here, have you found your soul mate yet? Well […]

Watching a Church Thaw The thaw is coming, the spiritual thaw and oh yeah the snow is melting too. After a massive storm last week we saw 50 plus degrees on Saturday and much of the evidence of the storm is gone. The large piles, the ones piled up over and over again by plows […]

Betraying our Faith to find Faithfulness Peter Rollins has written a thought provoking book called The Fidelity of Betrayal. In the book Rollins looks at the nature of the word of God and the story of God’s people contained in it and asks us to reconsider some ideas we may have about both. This is […]