Holiness Reeducation

This article just made me laugh. A church in Vienna, Virginia is suing their county because they county won’t let them change the message on the LED marquee sign more than twice a day. In fact the county said that haven’t changed the message twice in a 24 hour period was a violation. You can […]

Everyone needs a pick me up at the beginning of the week. Here are some things that have made me smile lately.   Mumford and Sons has a new album coming out Football season is upon us and I am a little bit excited to watch my man RG3 tear it up for the Redskins. […]

Do we as Christians in America participate in and support a culture of gun idolatry? That is the question I find myself asking today as I continue to work my way through James Atwood’s book – America and Its Guns. This book asks some very important questions regarding our theology of guns and the unique […]

Thanks to Tonya Mandich and Calvary Radio 89.9 in Valparaiso, IN for asking me to be on their Pastor’s Perspective program last week. If you are interested in giving it a listen, here you go. Mixdown to Duneland Community Church

In two days there will be a great cheer rising up in our neighborhood around 7:31 as the school bus pulls away, a new school year begins, and parents rejoice in a bit of silence in their homes. There is something magical about the start of a new school year. The excitement of possibility is […]

One effect of a world wide economic meltdown that hasn’t bee talked about? The suicide rates are climbing in many countries that are suffering economically. This article paints a fairly grim picture of what so many people are facing. They find themselves stuck. They can’t get jobs. They can’t pay their bills. They can’t find […]

Another tragic shooting yesterday took place near Texas A&M University. Our prayers go out the families of the officer and the other two who were killed in that shootout. Worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin we the victims of a mass shooting last week that saw 7 killed and others wounded. A few weeks […]

I could feel it brewing inside of me this morning. The crank was coming. My patience was a bit low. I was quiet. I was frustrated. And do you know what I was frustrated about? Everything was some sort of ridiculous miniscule moment of living a blessed life in the First World. I was frustrated […]

Rapper Snoop Dogg, who has carved out a huge career since his entrance onto the hip-hop scene in the early 90s, has been reborn. According to the artist he has been reborn now, and renamed by a Rastafarian priest as Snoop Lion. Snoop, whose transformation is being documented in a film called Reincarnation that is […]

Several times in the last few days I have seen Facebook posts that ask this question: If _________ were an Olympic Sport I could with the gold medal. The point being, of course, that all of us have some talent or ability that we feel we could match against the best in the world. It […]