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May 2013

May 29, 2013

Viaje Dominicano #3: My God is a great big God

[I decided to take a Sabbath from the blog for the rest of my mission...

May 28, 2013

Viaje Dominicano 2013 #2: La Inspiración de Los Jóvenes

The word jóvenes means the "young people." It basically covers both youth and young adults....

May 27, 2013

Monday Merton 5.27.13

I'm pre-loading my Monday Mertons for the next two weeks in my insomnia before leaving...

May 26, 2013

Is the Proverbs 31 woman a preacher? (Proverbs 31:26)

It's Mother's Day here in the Dominican Republic. One of the scripture readings for church...

May 26, 2013

The fate of “those who destroy the Earth”: Revelation 11:18

While I'm down here in the Dominican Republic, I've been reading some theology books in...

May 26, 2013

Viaje Dominicano 2013 #1: When is your team coming back here?

Maureen Glaser and I have come down ahead of our Dominican Republic missions team to...

May 25, 2013

How do we do confirmation post-James KA Smith?

For those of you Jesus nerds who haven't read James K.A. Smith, you need to...

May 25, 2013

Why Tony Jones (and other emergents) should read Amos Yong’s Pentecostal theology

I posted recently about the debacle that Tony Jones got into partly because of his...

May 24, 2013

Is Pope Francis a universalist heretic?

Oh mercy! The evangelicals have so wanted to make peace with the Catholics, because they...

May 24, 2013

A 140 char response to tragedy is always bad pastoral care

It doesn't matter whether Rachel Held Evans took John Piper's tweet about the Oklahoma tornadoes...

May 23, 2013

Agenda-less fellowship and youth ministry

Agenda-less fellowship. It’s a phrase that’s been stuck in my head recently. I'm not sure...

May 22, 2013

How in charge is God when tragedy strikes?

I knew it was coming: the Piper tweet, this time quoting Job in response to...

May 21, 2013

I want to sit in the clouds with Zach Sobiech

Sometimes you hear songs that only your eyes know how to talk about. I've spent...

May 21, 2013

Scandal vs. Pentecost

I preached this past weekend on two songs that seem to be vying for the...

May 20, 2013

Monday Merton 5.20.13

The chapter for Monday Merton this week is very apropos. We just started a blogger's...

May 19, 2013

“I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (salvation AS Pentecost)

To prepare for Pentecost, I've been reading Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong's The Spirit Poured Out...

May 18, 2013

The Despised Ones: A Bloggers Collective

You may have noticed that an eery looking emblem recently appeared on my blog with...

May 17, 2013

Tony Jones & the white emergentsia’s “Pentecostal problem”

Because I like to go against the grain, I wanted to try to stick up...

May 17, 2013

Which do you like better? Scandal or changing the world?

Several months ago, someone from the United Methodist communications office emailed me to see if...

May 16, 2013

Israeli youth picks prison over occupation

I just came across this video from Nathan Blanc, a 19 year old Israeli who...

May 16, 2013

The sad irony of the IRS and AP scandals

There has never been a time when somebody in our government was not misbehaving in...

May 15, 2013

In defense of the “so-called” Wesleyan quadrilateral and the experiential breath of God

The latest theater in the Methodist proxy war over homosexuality has involved attacks here and...

May 14, 2013

The context of “going on to perfection” (Hebrews 6:1-3)

I came across the Biblical context of the Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection in yesterday's...

May 14, 2013

Guns, government tyranny, and 1 Peter 2:13-17

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt traces the history of European anti-Semitism through its...

May 13, 2013

Born from beyond, not just again (John 3:3)

I listened to a second podcast today from Company of Burning Hearts, a British charismatic...

May 13, 2013

Monday Merton 5.13.2013

Today's Monday Merton is a chapter in Thomas Merton's No Man Is An Island that...

May 12, 2013

The savior who made us relevant to His mission (Acts 1:6-11)

I preached this weekend about the ascension of Christ. As I shared in a blog...

May 12, 2013

My mommy was my first pastor

This is a picture of my mom holding my son Isaiah two summers ago. I...

May 11, 2013

Martha Mullen, a Christian Antigone

In Sophocles' great tragedy Antigone, a civil war has taken place in the city of...

May 11, 2013

A brilliant rebuttal to my attack on suburbia

So I thought some of you who are tired of my blogomaniac hubris would get...

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