Holiness Reeducation

What does holiness have to do with our sex life? (Find parts 1 and 2 of this conversation here) Here are some of the difficult questions about our sexuality that I haven’t addressed. What about sex and single people? What about celibacy? What about homsexuality? What about abuse inside of marriage? What about very different […]

There is a place where all men are made equal before God. They come from far and wide and there they do battle to honor God. They meet with pride in their hearts and illusions of grandeur dancing in their head. This place is church league basketball and it is a place of wonder. In […]

Having lit the fourth candle of Advent, the moments until Christmas are but few. Only a couple of days remain until we experience the climax of all our preparation. I hope mine/your preparation has been as much spiritual as holiday driven. But in these final days leading up to Christmas our lives are certainly busy […]

What does it mean to have a holy sex life? (If you missed part one of this conversation you can find it here.) In the first part of this post I talked a lot about the design of our sexuality, its brokenness and its redemption. My dear friend Maggie rightly suggested that my second conversation […]

Here is the audio from my sermon yesterday, looking at the joy we experience through the Jubilee of Jesus 12.11.11 – Jubilee Joy

Is the phrase holy sex life an oxymoron? What does God want for our sex lives? Is this going to be an another awkward pastor talk about sex? (Probably, I will try to be honest and forthright without TMI) Those are three pretty legitimate questions to begin this post with. I promised in my post […]

It was a normal Sunday night, I was watching football, reading a book and chatting with my wife. Little did I know my life would be changed (in disturbing ways) by a show that just happened to flash by on the TV. I am speaking of The Virgin Diaries on TLC. This is a “reality […]

Every Advent we have the privilege of going back and looking at the life and ministry of John the Baptist. He may surface again sometime around Lent as we talk about Jesus’ baptism and his venture into the desert, but this is the season for John. This season of preparation is John’s season. What great […]