Holiness Reeducation

A Bunch of Disconnected Thoughts from the Super Bowl and my life on this fine Monday morning. Two moments on Saturday afternoon brought me great joy as a father. First, my son sat with me on the couch and watched an entire Maryland basketball game with me. I could tell it was a moment of [...]

Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be kickers. Whenever a field goal kicker misses my mother in-law feels bad, not for him, but for his mom. Watching your kid carry that kind of burden is tough. Well after yesterday’s games, Lawrence Tyne’s mom is relieved and Billy Cundiff’s mom is thankful her son [...]

A bumper sticker I read when I lived in Colorado, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why are sunsets orange?” I am sure there will be a slew of new ones that say, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why does Colorado run on Tebow Time?” The hoopla around Tim Tebow, his polarizing [...]

Happy New Year! We are going to kick the new year of properly with a look ahead to 2012, a look back on 2011 and the top ten posts of the past year. Let’s do it…. A 2012 Focus Every year I come up with a theme for the year. This past year my theme [...]

Having lit the fourth candle of Advent, the moments until Christmas are but few. Only a couple of days remain until we experience the climax of all our preparation. I hope mine/your preparation has been as much spiritual as holiday driven. But in these final days leading up to Christmas our lives are certainly busy [...]

I found both of these items out shopping last week and was disturbed by both of them.   I was disturbed by the dancing Rabbi because of how much I wanted one. Good to know that commercialization of religious holidays has extended outside of Christianity to Judaism as well. The WWJD movie just made me [...]

So far away, so close The profound mystery of union with Christ Connected for eternity, separated by life People from every nook and cranny of the earth Bound together by the love of God Gone but here, absent and present   Women and men, girls and boys all the Son of God All of us [...]

This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of church doing. Mars Hill Church in Seattle pastored by well known, much discussed, and certainly controversial pastor Mark Driscoll recently sent a cease and desist order to another church with the same name because they had copyrighted it. What? That deserves another [...]

If you haven’t heard that Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away last week then you aren’t reading this blog because you obviously have never been on the internet before. There has been a tremendous amount of attention the past week on the life and passing of Steve Jobs. The entire thing is frankly a bit [...]

Too much swimming through my mind today to delve too deeply into any of it. So today’s ramblings will be shorter and random, just the way I like it. First things first, here is a video of Mike and I performing Soul Man by the Blues Brothers to close out our worship service yesterday. We [...]