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July 2016

July 20, 2016

OMG: Signs and Wonder

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." -Henry David Thoreau...

July 19, 2016

OMG: The Glory and The Suffering

One of the most surprising parts of the Bible for people who are reading it for...

July 18, 2016

OMG: No Wonder

But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. -St. Paul I remember when I stopped believing in...

July 15, 2016

Church Work: Before You Go

One of the conversations I have at least once a week, is with a minister...

July 14, 2016

OMG: The Cup of Wonder

"Entertainment is what the church does when it isn’t satisfied in God." -A.J. Swoboda "Here...

July 13, 2016

The Bible Is Very Easy to Understand

“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians...

July 12, 2016

The Healing of the Nations: It Takes One to Know One

If you missed yesterday's post then please go back and read this first. It's a...

July 11, 2016

The Healing of the Nations: A Brief History of Racism

Last week was bad. From Philando Castile and Alton Sterlin to the Dallas shootings, every...

July 08, 2016

Church Work: When To Leave Your Church

One of the questions I get asked often is by young ministers who are thinking...

July 07, 2016

OMG: Like A Child

“When I was a child I thought like a child, when I became a man...

July 06, 2016

OMG: Awesome Gosh

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”-G.K....

July 05, 2016

Newsworthy with Norsworthy: June Awesome

So every month, I sit down with Luke Norsworthy, the host of the podcast Newsworthy...

July 04, 2016

A Fourth of July Meditation for Christians

A Fourth of July Meditation by Michael Wear, a former White House staffer who worked...

July 01, 2016

Church Work: Ministry in the Hospital (Advice From a Chaplain)

The following is a guest post by Ben Siburt. Ben served several years as a...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Worshipping Aphrodite: You Will Marry the Wrong Person

"You always marry the wrong person." -Stanley Hauweraus Just last month, the most read article...

June 29, 2016

Worshipping Aphrodite: Only God is Holy

Recently I was back in my hometown of Benton, Arkansas. There’s something about being back...

June 28, 2016

Worshipping Aphrodite: Life in Ruins

"You're nobody till somebody loves you." -Dean Martin She sits in my office as her...

June 27, 2016

Facebook Is the Devil: How Social Media Makes Tragedies Worse

A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a new member at Highland (the...

June 24, 2016

Church Work: Visiting the Hospital

So just a few days ago I walked into a Hospice room of a church...

June 23, 2016

Devil-Palooza

Last month, I was able to experience one of the weirdest, most awesome moments of...

June 22, 2016

There Are No Ordinary People

”It is a serious thing, to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses,...

June 21, 2016

The Church, Orlando, and Love Without Qualification

I was off the internet all of last week. My family and I were camping...

June 20, 2016

3 Important Reasons Your Church Needs to Be Intergenerational

Yesterday at Highland (the church I serve) we had a big day of blessing babies....

June 17, 2016

Church Work: The Wedding Rehearsal

It’s interesting that at the end of the Gospel of John, John writes that he’s...

June 16, 2016

Do You Deny The Resurrection?

I love this video. Peter Rollins is a brilliant thinker who I've got to spend...

June 15, 2016

The Heresy of Love

So I just recently finished reading 1st John, that little letter tucked away at the end...

June 14, 2016

King of Kings: The Silence of Caesar

Today I want to close out this series on Christians and politics with a final...

June 13, 2016

The Idolatry of “My God”

“You can safely assume you’ve made God into your own image, when it turns out...

June 10, 2016

Church Work: Writing A Wedding

So this series is going to be for other preachers and ministers and local church volunteers...

June 09, 2016

King of Kings: Separation of Church and State

When I was young we had a nice woman come and knock on our door...