Holiness Reeducation

If we are supposed to honor our presidents today, what better way of doing so than with some presidential ramblings.   The Presidents of the United States are one fascinating bunch of men. They offer such a rich variety of figures to study, learn from, and complain about. Of course they have just about the [...]

Has anybody ever written about Whitney Houston and Jeremy Lin in the same sentence before? Well this week they are linked by the rambling web of theology that incorporates my mind. Whitney makes me sad The news of Whitney Houston’s death over the weekend frankly wasn’t shocking at all. As soon as I heard about [...]

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 [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I have been off having a blast in Atlanta, GA with the crew from 3DM as we continue to work with them as part of our Discipleship Learning Community. There has been a ton of teaching to absorb and a lot of reflecting and planning. There has [...]

Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be kickers. Whenever a field goal kicker misses my mother in-law feels bad, not for him, but for his mom. Watching your kid carry that kind of burden is tough. Well after yesterday’s games, Lawrence Tyne’s mom is relieved and Billy Cundiff’s mom is thankful her son [...]

John 17 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.  I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than [...]

In Christian Smith’s book the Bible Made Impossible he offers a critique and response to the views and practices of biblicists within evangelicalism. (You can see my earlier posts on this idea – part 1, part 2, part 3) In the second half of the book he makes the important shift from his deconstruction of [...]

Heresy? Brilliant Insight? Game changing theology? Sort of helpful for some and damaging for others? What exactly are we to make of Rob Bell’s infamous, hot selling, much debated and often reviewed book called Love Wins? If you aren’t familiar with any of the controversy surrounding the book it will take about 5 seconds on [...]