Holiness Reeducation

Sorry I was blog incommunicado last week, but life was  a bit crazy. I had the great joy to attend M11 in Louisville which was a gathering of several thousand Nazarene clergy and lay people from the US/Canada region. Here are some reflections from three days spent fellowshiping and worshiping with thousands of Nazarenes. Say [...]

It is strange when you watch it snow for 24 hours and then you look out your window and your driveway has less snow on it than before the snow began. That was the power of the wind blowing around here the past couple of days. No one has any idea how much snow fell [...]

Many are saying that Europe has spent the past 100 years entering a post-Christian reality. The church in Europe, while still a strong cultural identifier, has lost its spiritual vitality in many places. The great cathedrals that remain of Christianity’s dominance in Europe now are mainly museums rather than houses of worship. The one time [...]

Google is driving robot cars around your city…. The Redskins have the most horrifically awesome win ever…. Holiness is communal…. and I have people on 3 continents working on logos for me……  All in today’s ramblings… I must begin this week by celebrating cringing over the Redskins victory yesterday over the Bears. Living in Chicagoland [...]

Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Of all the Beatitudes this is the one that makes me stop in my tracks and really think. My Wesleyan Holiness upbringing is both a blessing and a curse when reading this Beatitude. A part of me jumps straight on it and moves directly [...]

One of my favorite bloggers/writers David Fitch has an interesting post today about the future of the Evangelical church. David writes…. The future of the traditional evangelical church as I see it is: a.) mega churches continuing to grow, consolidating what is left of the Christendom populations, providing a traditional church services to the shrinking [...]

Is binge drinking simply a part of what it means to be British? That is the question being debated by many in a country renowned for giving the world pints of beer and demonstrating a commitment to heavy drinking that few in the world can rival. The British government is taking steps to make binge [...]

I declare the official end of the vacation portion of the summer. It is time to transition. In a bit I am picking Sophie up at the airport, and for the next 9 days until school starts my whole family will be in the same state. That is the longest we have been in the [...]

You know it is time to leave the mission trip when one of your middle schoolers tells you he has lost all of his underwear and you have to lend him a pair of yours. A Trip to Almost Canada, Michigan Last week I had the distinct privilege of taking our youth group on a [...]

On Monday I had the opportunity to present my 2010 Pastor’s Report for Duneland Community Church, at our annual District Assembly. Here is my report for 2009/2010. Duneland Community Church     Pastor’s Report 2010 – Greg Arthur In the year and a half I have been here in NW Indiana I have discovered something vital. You [...]