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July 2013

July 19, 2013

An example of holy conferencing?

Kevin Watson is a fellow Methodist blogger whom I discovered recently. He just did a...

July 17, 2013

Is communion intellectual property?

I learned a hard lesson today. Some of you saw my post where I had...

July 16, 2013

Unsafe in black and white America

I was frustrated when I took this picture last night from the fifth row at...

July 15, 2013

We are always praying; the question is to whom

Yesterday our senior pastor preached a thought-provoking sermon on prayer based upon Jesus' teaching in...

July 14, 2013

How does the Bible model Biblical discernment? (Acts 15)

Two weeks ago, Jonathan Martin kicked off his "Both And" sermon series on Biblical interpretation...

July 13, 2013

What I will share at Wild Goose (the written version)

At 5:30 pm on Friday, August 9th of this year, I will be at the...

July 12, 2013

Should women cover their heads in church?

The latest movement in neo-patriarchal evangelicaldom is a call for women to return to covering...

July 11, 2013

It’s not heroic martyrdom to “tie up heavy burdens for others” (Matthew 23:4)

Jesus' woes against the Pharisees in Matthew 23 should be mandatory daily devotional reading for...

July 10, 2013

Should your heart mess with how you read scripture?

Renovatus Church has just started an awesome sermon series on how to read the Bible...

July 10, 2013

Henri Nouwen on a good teacher’s “articulate not-knowing”

Many Christians operate under the premise that humanity is so thoroughly wicked and corrupt that...

July 09, 2013

Music video for my song “Our Father” by someone I never met

The pastor of Scottsdale Congregational United Church of Christ found my track "Our Father" on...

July 09, 2013

What are the “weightier matters of the law”? (Matthew 23:23)

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "weightier matters of the law"? It...

July 08, 2013

Why you have to be poor to treat people like Jesus did

The title is everything if you want a well-trafficked blog post. Now my task is...

July 07, 2013

Eternal life is living in God’s welcome

This week's Journey to Eternity sermon is about welcome. The word welcome is one way...

July 06, 2013

My first wedding sermon

Today I officiated my first wedding for Kevin Colpitts and Mary Vafiadis, a couple who...

July 06, 2013

Pinochet was the midwife of Chilean democracy?

The brazenness of the American neo-cons in response to the military coup in Egypt continues...

July 05, 2013

Democracy will save the brown people except when it doesn’t and then it’s Obama’s fault

David Brooks really fired me up today with this zinger about how Egypt's turmoil proves...

July 05, 2013

Property and the pursuit of happiness

As we celebrate Independence Day, I've been meditating on the inalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Gift of the Ringbearers

This weekend I preached on the suffering servant passage in Isaiah 53. I talked about...

June 28, 2013

We are all illegal aliens in the kingdom of God

[I posted this on Red Letter Christians two years ago but the Senate's passage yesterday...

June 28, 2013

Love is not love unless it becomes flesh

One of the things I acquired from growing up in evangelical youth groups and parachurch...

June 26, 2013

Christian holiness and the gay marriage debate

If there ever comes a time when evangelical Christians are known for something other than...

June 26, 2013

Contemplating a church-based living wage campaign

There were three resolutions for the Virginia annual conference of the United Methodist Church this...

June 25, 2013

The voice you long to hear (a gathering at Burke United Methodist Church)

There's a voice of love in the world that is always telling each of us...

June 25, 2013

When I forget my song…

There's an African folktale that I've read with both of my sons. In the story,...

June 24, 2013

Monday Merton 6.24.13: Mercy

This week's Monday Merton is taken from chapter 11 of No Man Is An Island,...

June 23, 2013

Are there other “gods” besides #God?

I'm working through the fourth chapter of Greg Boyd's God At War, in which he...

June 22, 2013

Confessions of a self-promoting blog-spammer

A pointed comment in a Facebook group today really cut me to the quick. Another...

June 22, 2013

Should we preach to uplift or convict?

A couple of years ago, we were going around the room at our new member...

June 21, 2013

Will the curmudgeons kill #Methodism? #umc #dreamumc #vaumc13

I am a curmudgeon. Not all the time. I'm capable of having my heart warmed....

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