Holiness Reeducation

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 […]

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 […]

There are a great many things to ramble about today, but anyone who know me knows that I am obliged to begin my ramblings by talking about the best day any Redskins fan has experienced since Joe Gibbs came back to the Skins for a second time. Thoughts about the Most Popular Man in DC […]

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 […]

I really appreciate a pastor who writes a chapter called Can we ______? and then fills in the blank with some of the more difficult questions a pastor gets asked about sex. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a first review of Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage. Today I am reviewing the […]

There are few Christian leaders guaranteed to make more news than Mark Driscoll. With the release of his latest book Real Marriage, co-written with his wife Grace, there has been a tremendous amount of news created. The book has sold very well. The book has been reviewed by lots of people. A lot of people […]

As often happens in my life, I have a collection of books I am currently reading or preparing to read. Looking at Kindle I realized that I now have ten in the hopper that need to be consumed and digested before adding anything else to the menu. Here are the books I am reading and […]

I just read a really interesting review of the book The END of Sexual Identity by Jenell Williams Paris over at Jesus Creed. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am adding it to my short list of books to read soon. Here is an excerpt from the review. If you are interested in […]

In Christian Smith’s book the Bible Made Impossible he offers a critique and response to the views and practices of biblicists within evangelicalism. (You can see my earlier posts on this idea – part 1, part 2, part 3) In the second half of the book he makes the important shift from his deconstruction of […]