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January 2014

January 02, 2014

Miguel de Unamuno and the faith of living as if God is real

In a used book store in DC a couple of weeks ago, I found a...

January 01, 2014

Five blogger’s resolutions

I suck at New Year's resolutions so usually I don't even try. But my buddy...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Some posts I wish more people had read in 2013

I've been in a pissy mood today, and it's for a lame reason. I'm tired...

December 31, 2013

2013: The Year of the Post-Evangelical Memoir (Erika Rae, Chris Haw, Tony Kriz, Addie Zierman)

The post-evangelical memoir has exploded as a genre in the wake of Rachel Held Evans'...

December 30, 2013

How the culture wars have bastardized the concept of holiness

One of the most obnoxious things about the culture wars is the way that they...

December 28, 2013

When pro-life goes Frankenstein: the case of Marlise Munoz

Erick and Marlise Munoz were both paramedics. They were both around life-and-death situations on a...

December 27, 2013

Does it matter that Luke knows nothing of Herod’s slaughter of the innocents?

This Christmas, I stumbled over a verse, Luke 2:39, that I had never noticed before:...

December 26, 2013

Since you’ve all been waiting for my two cents on the #DuckDrama…

It was so great to fast from my blog over Advent. The only thing I...

December 25, 2013

Solidarity: the meaning of Christmas

Emmanuel. God with us. That is the meaning of Christmas. Jesus was born to show...

December 23, 2013

Delight in the fear of the Lord

I keep on forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Isaiah 11 says that the messiah's...

December 12, 2013

Gatekeepers or groundskeepers of God’s house?

Hope you've been having a wonderful Advent. I've gotten backed up in sharing my sermon...

December 06, 2013

O Come Emmanuel (a hip-hop Advent resource)

It's been wonderful not blogging or surfing social media this week. Lat night, God gave...

December 02, 2013

Embracing irrelevance this Advent

Henri Nouwen's book In The Name of Jesus names three temptations for Christian leaders based...

December 01, 2013

What legacy have we inherited? Reflections on “12 Years A Slave.”

My wife and I watched "12 Years A Slave" this weekend. Needless to say, it...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

The three “family values” behind Black Friday

As I was reading several interviews with people standing in line for this year's Black...

November 29, 2013

Eucharistic life (more than just “being thankful”)

It seemed appropriate to write about the word Eucharist since it means "thanksgiving" in Greek....

November 27, 2013

Another item for Dave Ramsey’s list of what rich people do that poor people don’t do

Dave Ramsey recently posted on his blog a list of 20 things that rich people...

November 23, 2013

Are you a pilgrim or a tourist? (Hebrews 11:8-16) #sermon #podcast

Growing up in the church, I would often hear the phrase, "We're just pilgrims passing...

November 22, 2013

My duty to the Bible’s living interpretive tradition

I had a good discussion yesterday with my pastor covenant group about our discernment process...

November 20, 2013

Justice of the heart and Frank Schaefer

This week, the United Methodist Church put a pastor on trial named Frank Schaefer for...

November 19, 2013

Is your life NSFJ (not safe for Jesus)?

Please excuse the gratuitous selfie; I couldn't think of another graphic to use. I was...

November 18, 2013

Why James K.A. Smith should stay off of twitter

There are few things that make my blood boil more than to see someone take...

November 14, 2013

The United Methodist gay wedding crisis

Thomas Frank, the guy who wrote our textbook on United Methodist polity, has made a...

November 13, 2013

Lord, I thank you that I’m not like those people who thank God they’re not like other people

Our senior pastor Larry Buxton, who's a baseball nut, says that parables are supposed to...

November 06, 2013

How I read the Bible differently than John MacArthur

A friend pointed me to Tim Challies' recent interview with John MacArthur in which MacArthur...

November 05, 2013

A litmus test of Christian morality: the film North Country

My wife and I wanted to watch a light film at home this past Saturday...

November 04, 2013

Two things I had to ask my sons’ forgiveness for

My wife is the one who follows the parenting expert books that teach you better...

November 03, 2013

Locusts vs. prophets (a sermon on Joel 2)

Last weekend, I preached on the passage from Joel that Peter quoted in his famous...

November 01, 2013

Budgeting as an act of social justice

It's stewardship season in many churches around the country. As my friend Jason Micheli wrote,...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Mark Driscoll’s “working class” bloody Old Testament Jesus

I'm not a pacifist or a pansy (other than the fact that I'm not very...

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