Holiness Reeducation

There are certain moments as a parent that you dream about. You dream about taking your kid home from the hospital that first time. You dream about first words and first steps. You dream that one day they will become a professional athlete and pay off your mortgage. And then there is the Star Wars […]

It was nice to finally have a free day last Friday. Work and life have combined to rob my schedule of my regular days off and down time. So I busted loose, convinced a friend to play hookie from work (It didn’t take much convincing) and we went and enjoyed Iron Man 3. In honor […]

Fantastic games, the movement of the Holy Spirit, the subtle racism of sports coverage and more in this week’s ramblings… I am finishing up Mike Breen’s Leading Kingdom Movements this week. Yesterday in my reading he was talking about our vast need for the power of the Holy Spirit to do the miraculous in our […]

Work smarter, not harder, that is how the saying goes. It is the mantra of every organization that is undergoing a budget crunch or just seeking to be more productive. The effort is sufficient, we just aren’t utilizing it smartly. There is some significant truth that can be gleamed from this simple saying. When applied […]

I have a deep and abiding love for film. Movies have always held a powerful place in my life. Maybe it is because of their absence from my youth because of family rules or just a basic part of my nature to be enraptured by visual storytelling. Whatever the reason movies are something I truly […]

Do you remember the movie Mean Girls staring Lindsay Lohan (pre-rehab, endless court dates and lost touch with reality Lindsay)? In the movie Lohan moves to a new school and is befriended by a group of outsiders. They aren’t cool, they aren’t popular but they offer her real community. But then an evil group of […]

With the beginning of Advent I will finally allow for Christmas music to play in the house. I definitely have my favorites that I tend to go back to year after year. I have several albums of Christmas and Advent hymns that have been redone by popular Christian artists. I love these and they go […]

You know who I think must be a genius? Future Greg! On the show How I Met Your Mother one of the recurring jokes has been about Future Ted and Future Marshall. When Ted and Marshall want to procrastinate, are unsure of how to handle a problem or don’t know what to do they simply […]

In our efforts to be effective, creative, or relevant in our ministries do we create unintended consequences that actually work against our stated goals? I really love the people who run the Freakonomics blog/podcast/ authored the books. If you haven’t read Freakonomics or Super Freakonomics, they are really interesting books looking at the hidden side […]

The stunning announcement came yesterday that Disney is buying Lucas FIlms for 4 billion dollars and is planning on continuing the Star Wars series, Fans can expect to see Episode 7 in theaters by 2015. George Lucas the beloved and much maligned Star Wars godfather will serve as Yoda to the project but not direct […]