Holiness Reeducation

The Theology of the Slip and Slide Sometimes in life a small investment pays off big dividends. Yesterday was such a day as a $7 investment in a new slip and slide resulted in three hours of entertainment for our kids and our neighbors kids on a rarely seen beautiful day here in Indiana It […]

God gave me a gift when he put me on this planet. It is a gift to create sandwiches. In some ways it may be my greatest gift. I can leave my mark on this world bringing to people two well stuffed slices of bread at a time. So thanks to my buddy Shay’s suggestion, […]

I happened to notice yesterday that I was sitting at 699 posts. I have no idea what I have said over these 699 posts, but I appreciate anyone who has taken the time to read some of them and add their comments. So for this my 700th post I simply have a question. What posts […]

We are continuing our series My ____ Life this week with a look at our working lives.  In some regards I feel a little out of my element preaching about work life. My work is the church. My work environment is as pleasant and conducive to my personality as possible. I am never sad to […]

The rapture didn’t happen, only this week it’s news. Everybody on the planet has had ample opportunity now to make their prerequisite rapture jokes. I have a bunch of them but they don’t serve much of a purpose now. The world has had yet another laugh at the expense of Christians doing stupid things. Excellent, […]

According to the AP, there is a measure that will appear on the November ballot in San Francisco that would ban circumcisions of males under the age of 18. What? Don’t get me wrong I appreciate the plethora of easy to make jokes about the subject but I am missing out on the point? (I […]

Is a poor theology of salvation working against our mission in the evangelical church? For the past several weeks we have been discussing David Fitch’s new book The End of Evangelicalism? You can see the earlier parts of this conversation here and here.  Today we continue by examining the “Decision for Christ”, how our theology […]

In case you run into Tony Horton, tell him I just brought it…. Spiritual Thoughts on P90X I started off on the P90X journey hoping to see some breakthroughs physically that I have desired but have been unable to achieve. 90 days later I can say that pretty much all of those goals were met. […]

Does neo-Reformed theology work against missional living as the church? That is the question David Fitch is asking today. I was going to continue my review of The End of Evangelicalism? today but this post merited some thoughts instead. I argued that Reformed theology, extracted out of Medeival Europe and transplanted to the frontiers of […]

Mourning the departure of Gary Williams from Maryland, thoughts on a new coach for the Terps, and reflecting on Mother’s Day in the church, all in today’s ramblings…. First some Mother’s Day Thoughts I don’t like Mother’s Day. (Did I really just type that, eghads!) I don’t like Mother’s Day as a preacher, more specifically. […]