Holiness Reeducation

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 have a book that you think other people must read? We would love to hear about it. During the summer I typically slow down on my theological reading and go back through my favorite novels for a couple of months. This summer is no exception as I have spent most of my free [...]

Two interesting facts for you today. Facebook now has more users that the population of United States, Japan and Germany combined. Amazon is now selling more digital books for its Kindle than hardcover books. Wow. What is truly remarkable about both of these stories is the exponential growth of this social networking giant and a [...]

What are the biggest obstacles in our churches to living missional lives? That is a question that is vital to any conversation about becoming a missional church. In Introducing the Missional Church by Roxburgh and Boren, they talk about elements of both Modernity and Post-Modernity that can keep us from being Missional. (For more on [...]

It is another Monday, my face looks like I got beat up because of a nice case of poison ivy, my mind is still a little tired from Easter, and the world has almost too much going on for me to know what to comment on. So today I am going a bit differently and [...]

(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 [...]

How do you get people in West Virginia to eat healthier? (If you missed the first two parts of my reflection on the book Switch, go here and here) That was the goal for two researchers at WVU. They wanted people to really try and eat a healthier diet, but they knew that simply telling [...]

Are you ready to make big changes in your life? Are you a pastor or a leader who is trying to change an organization? Are you simply trying to get over a hurdle you have never been able to make it over before? Well, Switch, a book by Dan and Chip Heath is a great [...]

Is it possible that even within the church, where life change is literally our mission, that we know very little about motivating people to make difficult change? It is the pursuit of that question that led me to explore the fascinating and very insightful new book by Dan and Chip Heath called Switch. In their [...]

Do I really have this much to say? I started blogging on February 14, 2006 and in the almost four years since I have now written 500 blog entries. That equates out to 125 a year or one about every three days. That is more discipline and consistency that my life has usually known, so [...]