Holiness Reeducation

In a land far, far away there lived a monkey. This monkey actually lived on an island. One day there were torrential rains that never seemed to end and the island began to flood. The rain and the waters kept coming and coming until one day, the monkey was left with only a little bit [...]

Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow Winter gave us an extra month off this year (as opposed for the “Hey welcome to Indiana we are going to start snowing the first week of November and not stop until March” welcome we received last year). But today the snow started falling and it [...]

For a month at the box office John Cusack has been working to save his family from the world wide apocalypse of 2012 rightly predicted by the end of the Mayan calendar and some New Age scholars. It certainly makes for a great movie trailer with Cusack driving his RV through Yellowstone as the whole [...]

Have you read the Didache yet? Tomorrow I am joining in on the Didache Blog Tour for Tony Jones’ new book. There have been some really interesting posts so far this week as people have walked through the first 6 chapters of the book. Head over to Tony’s blog for his interaction with each post [...]

Here I go again, I am changing up traditions again. What is your favorite scripture to read during Advent? I usually like to stay in the gospels or in Isaiah, but this year I am spending my time someplace completely different. For three straight weeks in Advent I am preaching on the same text, Philippians [...]

Today is a day to stop and pray for and think about how we are helping the tens of millions of people around the world infected with HIV and suffering from AIDS. I just received this email from Tom Davis at Children’s Hope Chest and thought I would pass along the content to you. I [...]