Holiness Reeducation

Because Duck Boats Matter Have any of you out there ever been on a Duck Boat? We were having a lively conversation about the amphibious recreational vehicle famed for both its important role in D-Day and its tourism role in the Wisconsin Dells. I denounced the duck boat because an accident aboard one in Arkansas [...]

I am sitting this morning at the coffee shop in the student center at Olivet Nazarene University. I am here, along with pastors from 11 districts, for a couple days of worshiping, fellowship, prayer and workshops. Thus far I have been surprised by how much I have enjoyed the gathering. Why am I surprised? Well [...]

Have you ever come to a place where you look around at the needs of the world and the incredible changes that are going on and you become paralyzed with fear as you realize that you simply have no idea how the church will ever make an impact today? It was a a couple of [...]

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 [...]

Following Up on Nazarenes and Emergents There has been lots of good discussion on this post and on plenty of other blogs regarding the statement released by the Board of General Superintendents on the Emerging Church. Having had some time to really reflect on the statement and to read so many different comments on it, [...]

As a Nazarene pastor and someone who has participated for the better part of the last ten years in the emerging church conversation, I was really please yesterday to read the first official statement from the Board of General Superintendents (essentially our Bishops in the Nazarene World) regarding the emerging church. This statement was put [...]

Nothing seemed important enough to blog about today with the unbelievable devastation in Haiti yesterday. A third of the country may need emergency aid, they are literally piling the dead up on top of each other on the street and the sturdiest, most well built buildings in the whole country such as the Presidential Palace, [...]

I just wanted to give a shout out to my Nazarene peeps for a great day in our denomination yesterday. Two new General Superintendents (our bishops, we have 6 of them) were elected yesterday and for the first time we elected a GS from outside of North America. Eugenio Duarte who has served over the [...]

The state of Virginia is banning smiling at the DMV. (Insert Punch Line Here) As if anyone ever smiled about heading to the DMV anyways! It is true, to help a facial recognition software program the state is eliminating smiling for your drivers license picture. When I got my license in Indiana they told me [...]

For those of you who aren’t Nazarenes (i.e. when someone says Entire Sanctification you stare at them blankly), who haven’t lived your life as part of the peculiar brand of Evangelical Christianity of which I find myself a part (i.e. you don’t have a closet full of Caravan badges, Bible Quizzing trophies, or back issues [...]