Holiness Reeducation

One of the buzz words in the church right now is missional. Lots of people are talking about being missional people, missional churches, missional denominations, and missional gardeners (okay I made that last one up). But what does it really mean to be missional and why is everyone talking about it so much. Many of […]

A Monday without basketball reflection or randomness from Greg, must mean I actually have something important to talk about today. Wishing I was in Slobodskoi Two years ago I had the privilege of traveling to Russia with some people from my church, my buddy Dan Clark and some good folks from Children’s Hope Chest. While […]

There is an old Irish curse that says, “May God give you the desires of your heart”. That sounds like a blessing not a curse, at least as you first hear it, but the more you think about it the more you realize that often when we get what we want, we find it is […]

Amazing, perplexing, gut wrenching, and exhilarating. How was your weekend? So much happening, so many thoughts, here they are in no particular order. – I added a niece and a nephew last week, one from my sister, one from my brother in law. I doubt that ever happens again, so yeah for family and babies […]

The Post is asking that question today. Do preachers ever preach things they don’t believe? Are there skeptical clergy hidden in the pulpits of churches throughout our country? The simple answer is yes, but the bigger question is, how many clergy would fit that description? As a preacher I ask myself this question all the […]

Following Up on Nazarenes and Emergents There has been lots of good discussion on this post and on plenty of other blogs regarding the statement released by the Board of General Superintendents on the Emerging Church. Having had some time to really reflect on the statement and to read so many different comments on it, […]

As a Nazarene pastor and someone who has participated for the better part of the last ten years in the emerging church conversation, I was really please yesterday to read the first official statement from the Board of General Superintendents (essentially our Bishops in the Nazarene World) regarding the emerging church. This statement was put […]

(The earlier parts of this series can be read here: part 1, part 2, part 3) Would you be more motivated to save money with the promise that someday we will go somewhere nice or with the promise that next year at this time you will be sitting on a beach in Hawaii? Do you […]

Do you think that 20 years into their wilderness experience Israel was starting to think they were on the downside of the whole experience or just horrified at the thought of another two decades of wandering through the desolation and eating manna everyday? I made it to Psalms and Ezekiel has some dirty stuff in […]

This is a team that lost at home to William and Mary. This is a team that the last two years has been simply praying right now they would make it to the big dance. This is a team that two weeks ago got Zoubeked @ Duke. But last night, following one ridiculous no way […]