Holiness Reeducation

With the grounding of the Space Shuttle program run out of Cape Canaveral, Florida NASA now finds itself with a number of facilities that it can no longer use. It has launch pads, giant shuttle movers, huge warehouses where assembly took place, and one of the longest runways in the world, all essentially with a [...]

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 [...]

Has anybody ever written about Whitney Houston and Jeremy Lin in the same sentence before? Well this week they are linked by the rambling web of theology that incorporates my mind. Whitney makes me sad The news of Whitney Houston’s death over the weekend frankly wasn’t shocking at all. As soon as I heard about [...]

Jim Collins, in his masterful book Good to Great says that good is the enemy of great. Good makes us comfortable. Good removes our desire to make the difficult decision necessary to be great. Here are the opening words from Collins book in chapter 1. Good is the enemy of great. And that is one [...]

What is your capacity for leadership? That is the question I have been asking myself for the past week as I have reflected on some of the teachings of Mike Breen I heard in Atlanta. Mike challenged us as leaders to evaluate the leaders we invest into not through their competency but according to their [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I have been off having a blast in Atlanta, GA with the crew from 3DM as we continue to work with them as part of our Discipleship Learning Community. There has been a ton of teaching to absorb and a lot of reflecting and planning. There has [...]

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 [...]

I wanted to give you something to read today with all of your internet time freed up since you aren’t scanning Wikipedia for articles about Def Leppard or waste your day looking at funny cats and creative fails over at I can has Cheezburger. Those and other popular sites have gone on strike today to [...]

John 17 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.  I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than [...]

Sunday we started our new worship series at DCC focusing on what it means to be made whole by God. For the first couple of weeks we are looking at the idea of spiritual balance as a route to wholeness. The most important part of that balance being intimacy with God. I especially talked about [...]