Holiness Reeducation

There is a fascinating article today regarding discoveries about the birth of the AIDS epidemic. Scientists have now found the exact region and time in which the epidemic began. The spread of the particular strand of HIV that has resulted in 99% of the deaths from AIDS is linked to a group of chimps in [...]

  Most of you will be familiar with the scene in the movie the Matrix where Neo has to choose between taking the red pill or the blue pill. If he takes the blue pill he will wake up in his bed and his life will go on the same as it always has. If [...]

There has been a bit of talk this week about Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s criticism of President Obama for what he calls “phony theology”. So what do we think about Santorum’s claim? To be more specific about the claim, Santorum has gone on the record saying that he does not doubt that the President [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

But many of us who have seen significant growth in our churches know a dirty little secret: Significant growth has its own ill effect on helping communities develop deep faith. Numeric growth of Christianity doesn’t indicate a more harmonious was of life with God. The metaphor of the body is a good one for churches. [...]

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 [...]

How in the world does a ship the size of a floating city ending up capsized just off shore? Frankly I am glad that I am not the one who has to answer that question. The captain of the Costa will have to answer that question and the results are going to change his life [...]