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 […]

Bacon, basketball, Palm Sunday, being part of a movement, all this and more in today’s ramblings… It was truly a wonderful weekend. Somehow life afforded me rest and abiding during Lent, right before Holy Week. That is almost unprecedented in my time as a pastor. With the kiddos gone for Spring Break Gretchen and I […]

The Super Bowl may just be more American then the Fourth of July. It is at least, just as American as Independence Day. The good and bad of our country was on full display last night. The football game is only part of the spectacle and celebration of all things America that took place yesterday. […]

Several months ago I blogged about a documentary being produced about something called Fight Church. Through that post I got connected with another pastor who is actually pastoring a church called Fight Church that is unrelated to the film. Josh Boyd, the pastor, and I were able to meet up and have coffee a couple […]

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 […]

Several times in the last few days I have seen Facebook posts that ask this question: If _________ were an Olympic Sport I could with the gold medal. The point being, of course, that all of us have some talent or ability that we feel we could match against the best in the world. It […]

Mary Poppins, The Queen, a creepy baby, the explosion of social media, yeah that’s right it is Olympics time. There are few things I enjoy more than the Olympics. Gretchen and I can sit together and watch any event. We have been singing the Olympic theme song for weeks. So the start of the XXX […]

Can I make a match up between Lebron and Kevin Durant spiritual? Absolutely? Am I going to? I have no idea. Tonight begins the NBA Finals, and for the 16 fans of the NBA still out there (this is actually not true at all. For some reason people think NBA popularity is down and it […]

Wow April has come in with a bang. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week and the start of a ridiculously busy April in my life. From Holy Week to Easter to coaching 7-10 year old girls fast pitch softball to trying to buy a building to working on budgets to District Assembly […]

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 […]