Holiness Reeducation

As a worship leader there are many tensions that exist in planning and leading worship. There is a tension between trying to lead with excellence without making it a show. There is a tension of balancing multiple services while still leaving room for the Spirit to work. There is the tension of wanting to use […]

This post is going to be a little hard to write without getting all upset and emotional. When I was in college something really hard happened to me one night. My favorite baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles, were playing in Yankee stadium, October 9, 1996 in the first game of the ALCS. It was the […]

I have expanded my blogging enterprises and I am also writing for a blog called Emergent Nazarenes, a group of fellow Nazerenes I found recently. So if you are a Nazarene make sure you check Emergent Nazarenes and hear our thoughts on our denomination, our theology, and our praxis.

A new book on the postmodern Christianity scene is The Great Giveaway by David Fitch. Fitch, an Evangelical and a Christian Missionary Alliance pastor near Chicago, sets out to help examine the Evangelical church and its practices. His premise for doing so is that the Evangelical Church has bought into so many of the practices […]

Last night we hosted Andrew Peterson in concert at Christ Church and he was awesome. What a great show. His songs are very insightful and powerful with their blend of lyrics and great celebration of God and life. I was very impressed and left the concert a bigger fan than when I went in. I […]

Today the movie United 93 opnes in theaters and plunges the American public back to the dark day of September 11, 2001. When I first saw the trailer last month I was chagrined. I was at a movie for a good time, trying to unwind, and then the trailer was there and the whole theater […]

One of the subjects we did some reflecting on at the Emerging Church conversation in Maryland was the idea of Evangelism. Evangelism is a very tough subject to talk about As my fellow pastor Greg kept asking, "Can we actually try and define evangelism before we talk about it?" All the ideas of evangelism that […]

Living in Chapel Hill, NC it has been very interesting to hear about all of the furor and debate surrounding the Duke Lacrosse Scandal. For any of you who are not from the area and have missed the story, check out this article which gives a brief summary of everything that has been happening. In […]

Well, here we have it, the definitive article explaining how Jesus walked on water. This guy's theory is that Jesus actually walked on a block of ice formed by cold air and unusually cold water temperatures. The chances of this occuring are, according to this scientist, about once in 10,000 years. Is it me or […]

Well Greg, Loren and I got back from Maryland yesterday and we had a great trip. It was really fun for the three of us just to hang out. In the car Loren slept a lot and Greg and I fixed all the churches problems. We had quite an adventure on Tuesday with a trip […]