Holiness Reeducation

Villains, heroes, banged up warriors trying to hang onto their championship, new challengers, old faces in new places, and the most dynamic rookie to hit DC in decades. Let’s start the 2010-2011 NBA Season already! Here are some observations/predictions/dreams for the season that will undoubtedly prove my prophetic gift. Observations: You may hate the Miami […]

Google is driving robot cars around your city…. The Redskins have the most horrifically awesome win ever…. Holiness is communal…. and I have people on 3 continents working on logos for me……  All in today’s ramblings… I must begin this week by celebrating cringing over the Redskins victory yesterday over the Bears. Living in Chicagoland […]

Do you ever feel like your moments of success are the moments that lead to your failures? Sometimes our successes are the moments when failure begins. Sometimes our success is a failure. What does any of that mean? Well as Christians we are called to a life of self denial in order to achieve success […]

Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Of all the Beatitudes this is the one that makes me stop in my tracks and really think. My Wesleyan Holiness upbringing is both a blessing and a curse when reading this Beatitude. A part of me jumps straight on it and moves directly […]

The Hour of Power is running low on juice. News today that the Crystal Cathedral in California, made famous by its super positive pastor Robert Schuller and it s widely broadcast Sunday morning service, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The church has massive debts (over $50 million in debts and assets listed in court papers) […]

Pure joy, ecstasy, delight beyond delight, that was the look on my son’s face yesterday as I took him on his first go-kart ride. We were enjoying a wonderful evening with the small groups from church and the host home happened to have a go-kart for our entertainment. When it was our turn to go […]

One of my favorite bloggers/writers David Fitch has an interesting post today about the future of the Evangelical church. David writes…. The future of the traditional evangelical church as I see it is: a.) mega churches continuing to grow, consolidating what is left of the Christendom populations, providing a traditional church services to the shrinking […]

Blessed are those who are merciful for they will be shown mercy. So now we find ourselves considering mercy. What does it mean to give and to receive mercy? How does the coming of the Kingdom of God change the role of and availability of mercy in the world? How is mercy good news? Is […]

With Columbus Day yesterday I just couldn’t bring myself to blog. OK that isn’t true, I just didn’t have time for my weekly rambling yesterday. So this week ramblings are on Tuesday. And oh are they even better with another day of randomness to add in. Greg Nosal has the quote of the year thus […]

Christine O’Donnell, who is the Republican and Tea Party candidate for the empty senate seat in Delaware, has certainly drawn a lot of attention to herself since her surprise victory in the primaries. Recently, however, in an interview she gave to CBN she talked about God’s call for her to run in this race. (You […]