Holiness Reeducation

When all of the internet is abuzz about the University of Maryland’s football uniforms it is time for some garish uniform inspired ramblings…. Update – I just found this video from Under Armor for the uniforms, kind of makes me laugh and kind of inspires me! About those uniforms Last night the University of Maryland [...]

Today my ramblings take the form of YouTube videos that are indeed random, entertaining, mystifying or simply appropriate for the moments. So here you go, spend some time thinking about these. An Interesting Worship Experiement My buddy sent me this link. He entitled it The Worst Worship Ever. I won’t say that, but I do [...]

No one would hire me to be their pastor without my wife, paintballs still leave welts, and we need to reset our God expectations, all  in this week’s ramblings.. My Wife is Awesome As Gretchen and I celebrate 13 years of marriage today I recognize how incredibly blessed we both are. After 13 years of [...]

in a Lots going on in the world, some of it important, some of it bizarre, and some of it involving football, so let’s get it started…. Keep your friends close and your worship pastor closer In the kind of story that you just can’t make up, a pastor at, (wait as I set the [...]

This article from the Freakonomics blog is well worth reading. Evidently the role of dads in our culture is rapidly changing. Dads are at the same time becoming more engaged in the lives of their children and leaving the lives of the their children. In 1960, only 11% of American children lived apart from their [...]

When you walk outside at 5:45 in the morning and it already feels like it is 85 degrees and the air is so thick that you can taste it, you know you are in for a hot one. Especially when you are in Indiana. Unfortunately for my NC friends you get mornings like that in [...]

We are back from our tour of New England and what a trip it was. The purpose of the trip was dropping our daughter off at camp for two weeks, but there was no way we were going that far without taking some time to really enjoy one of our favorite areas of the country. [...]

What does it mean to live in a world without space shuttles? That is the question I am considering this morning while realizing how much the world is changing. We are running out of astronauts. We have grounded the space shuttles. We are bumming rides off of the Russians to go into space. (That is [...]

The biggest news of the weekend came from New York state where the legislature there passed a law allowing for same sex marriages in the state. With the population of New York being what it is, this pretty much doubled the population in our country that now has been afforded this right. The passing of [...]

That title should at least get your attention. A new study of life expectancy rates in the US has come out. The news is interesting to say the least. In some parts of the country people are living longer than ever. But in many regions life expectancy is actually declining. Life expectancy rates in the [...]