Holiness Reeducation

The gospel you preach will determine the disciples you make. Does the gospel you preach naturally lead people to a life of discipleship? What do the disciples your gospel produces look like? Those are the very important questions I have been wrestling with since returning from the Missional Learning Commons on Saturday. Is our struggle [...]

Happy Reformation Day for all of you Protestants out there. Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther, writing more as a scholar than an intended reformer sparked a wave of transformation that has changed the very fabric of Christianity. I mean without Luther we would never have ended up with the Single Men Between the age [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]

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 [...]