Holiness Reeducation

How has the American culture’s obsession with celebrity infiltrated the church? What temptations do we as pastor’s face in regards to being a celebrity. In Mike Breen’s new book, Multiplying Missional Leaders he offers this insight into celebrity and the North American church.         However, the problem with celebrity comes when we [...]

At least three climbers have died and two more are missing after summiting Mt. Everest this weekend.  Overcrowding, difficult conditions, and a late afternoon windstorm are receiving much of the blame for the disastrous weekend on the world’s highest mountain. Everest has taken the lives of a great climbers. The zone about the last camp [...]

Last week I offered some thoughts on the the Same Sex Marriage debate from the perspective of how the church can better represent Christ in regards to this debate. But I certainly didn’t cover another very important side of the debate. A good friend pointed this out to m in an email. Here is part [...]

This morning I was talking with a guy at a coffee shop about churches. He made a very astute observation talking about a couple of churches he had visited and comparing them. He said, “Church A seemed to be involved in every aspect of their community. Everything they did was geared towards those outside their [...]

Each tribe within the church body has its own peculiarities, beautiful elements and rituals. Whenever I gather together with my brothers and sisters of the Church of the Nazarene I am reminded of what it is that makes us who we are. Today I write in celebration and simple recognition of the things that make [...]

There is a great article by Kevin Ulmet, pastor of Nashville First Church of the Nazarene that appears in Holiness Today. I highly recommend all my Nazarene brothers and sisters give it a read.Here is a brief excerpt. I have been in Nazarene ministry now for 30 years; I wouldn’t change a thing if I [...]

What does the culture and church in Europe have to teach us about the North American church? That is one of the primary questions that I went into our European expedition asking. It is a question I have been pondering for some time. When we began to talk to people about this trip, I kept [...]

Our time in Rome thus far has been marked by two distinctive images for me. Their contrast is staggering and worthy of contemplation. The first image is from our visit yesterday to the Vatican. It was my first time in St. Peter’s Basilca and I was awed by the experience. The beauty of St. Peter’s [...]

On Monday I am heading off to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy with a group of pastors from my district. We are going because we want to vacation in Europe without our families on a visioning trip to prayerfully consider how to partner churches here in NW Indiana with churches in these countries. Our district [...]

A Catholic priest in DC is taking major flack for refusing to give communion to a woman, who happens to be a lesbian, at her mother’s funeral. The Diocese has issued a formal apology about the lack of pastoral sensitivity that took place and said the priest was in the wrong, but according to Catholic [...]