Holiness Reeducation

Well it is good to know Rick Warren and I have something in common. Rick sent out an urgent plea to his congregation to try and raise $900,000 by the end of the year for their budget. Seems as if their end of the year giving was down almost 50% from last year. Yeah tell […]

** This is the 2nd post in a series on the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons, find the 1st post here** That is a question I have asked myself for virtually my whole life. Why are there so many white people in my church? Growing up in the DC area we […]

Wow, how about this billboard. This Anglican church in New Zealand certainly did what it wanted to and sparked some religious conversation in a very secular country. What do you think?

Wow, what a wonderful Christmas. I hope you had a great time of celebration and worship over the past week. The word that dominated this Advent and Christmas for me is joy. It has been a season of joy. Thanks be to God! It is the kind of joy that you can see in the […]

Check out this Priest By SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press Tuesday, December 22, 2009; 5:49 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina priest missed the $1 million top prize in a poker tournament to be televised this weekend but he won $100,000 for his church and he hopes his participation gives viewers a “fun twist” […]

Sorry if you stopped by the blog yesterday or Saturday and there was nothing here. My domain mapping expired and I had to get things renewed. No worries, I am back. I know that you were all really concerned something had happened to my blog. Quick Hits Big game for the Skins tonight. It is […]

Mike Shanahan? Bill Cowher? Mike Holmgren (please no!)? Jimmy Johnson?!?! Thankfully for all Redskins fans Vinny Cerrato resigned today as team president. Vinny, the de facto GM since Joe Gibbs re-retired, had to be held accountable for the teams failures this season and he resigned, I would guess, rather than being fired. So what does […]

(This is the fourth post in a series examining the thoughts of Deep Church by Jim Belcher. Jim has written this book in an effort to offer a Third Way beyond the Emerging and Traditional Churches and the increasing divide between the two) The most frequent charge I hear against the emerging church, leveled especially […]

Quick Hits It is too bad Jason Campbell isn’t going to be back next year because he is showing that he is a good QB. It is going to be a bummer watching him win with another franchise. The Wizards are a mess. 5 straight losses by 11 combined points! We lose our beloved owner […]

After almost four years of blogging (how in the world have I found things to write about for four years? I could have written two books during that time or gotten a PHD or something) I decided to finally update my This is me the last time I checked page. I read the old one […]