Holiness Reeducation

This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of church doing. Mars Hill Church in Seattle pastored by well known, much discussed, and certainly controversial pastor Mark Driscoll recently sent a cease and desist order to another church with the same name because they had copyrighted it. What? That deserves another [...]

If you don’t get the picture, don’t worry about it. Just trust a Star Wars fan that it is really funny. This picture has me thinking about regret today. My personality is not one that is prone to dwell on regrets all that often, but my humanity certainly has left me with a multitude of [...]

These guys are usually pretty funny. This time they have outdone themselves. My favorite are the worship poses and there comment about Linda, “Linda is merely a woman.” Wow some of this probably hits too close to home for some churches.

What happens when we not only put the cart before the horse, but sometimes put the horse in the cart? That is the question I have been pondering for the past week since my time with Mike Breen and the great folks at 3DM. One of the most thought provoking studies we did was looking [...]

When Gretchen and I headed off to Colorado to for seminary I was full of excitement for the opportunity to learn and to explore ministry. We were freshly married (as in we moved into seminary housing the week before we got married) and I needed a job. So I began to look around at the [...]

Why are Christians in this country so comfortable with the death penalty? That is the question perplexing me today as I read about the candidates positioning themselves for a run at the presidency. Not only are there no candidates I have encountered who are anti-death penalty, but the most prominent Christian candidates seem to be [...]

A new Census Bureau study shows that as many as 46 million Americans now live in poverty. That is about 15% of our country or a little over 1 in 6 people. If this doesn’t shock you then the numbers must just be too abstract. Let’s make that number mean something more. 46 million people [...]

The other day I caught this video of Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, addressing the decision of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to withdraw from the 2011 Global Leadership Summit. Schultz decided not to attend because of an online petition started by a group of homosexual right advocates. This group protested his attendance [...]

In Christian Smith’s new book The Bible Made Impossible we encounter an in depth look at Evangelicalism’s foundational beliefs about the Bible and their implications. This is a challenging and important book for all of us who teach scripture, debate theology, and defend the authority of scripture to read and discuss. Last week I began [...]

in a Lots going on in the world, some of it important, some of it bizarre, and some of it involving football, so let’s get it started…. Keep your friends close and your worship pastor closer In the kind of story that you just can’t make up, a pastor at, (wait as I set the [...]