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January 2012

January 09, 2012

Alpha Male vs. Man of God

What is the difference between an alpha male and a man of God? I'm finding...

January 09, 2012

Five Things I Liked In Tebow’s Autobiography

I've decided to do something contrary to my nature, as part of my personal recovery...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

What Makes Christians Unsympathetic People?

"I'm Christian, unless you're gay." That's the title of one of the most popular blog...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Jesus on Tebowing: Matthew 6:5-6

I really don't know much about Tim Tebow. I haven't ever watched him play because...

November 21, 2011

How vanilla should a pastor’s blog be?

I recently had a very important conversation with a good friend who had the courage...

November 16, 2011

“The Grasshopper’s Song,” a subversive remix of Aesop’s fable

This week in his school library, my son Matthew happened to check out a book...

November 16, 2011

"The Grasshopper's Song," a subversive remix of Aesop's fable

This week in his school library, my son Matthew happened to check out a book...

November 13, 2011

Self-congratulation vs. boasting in the Lord

October and November are anxious months for pastors, because they're generally when we run our...

November 09, 2011

Crossing my arms at the Chris Tomlin show

About two-thirds of the way through Chris Tomlin's Fairfax, VA show last Friday, he joked...

November 03, 2011

Spankings and Judge William Adams

I watched a video I shouldn't have of that Texas judge William Adams beating his...

November 02, 2011

Russell Conwell: the Dave Ramsey of last century

In some recent reading I've been doing, I stumbled across an early 20th century Baptist...

November 01, 2011

Tuesday church: my smallest, most fruitful small group

On Tuesdays at noon, I have my smallest, most fruitful small group. It's me and...

October 2011

October 29, 2011

I want the world to end

I wonder how many people secretly want for the world to end. I do. I...

October 26, 2011

When did banter become a spiritual gift? Jon Acuff and Christian radio DJ’s

I'm not sure how to explain what I've been wrestling with today. It started when...

October 06, 2011

Trolling vs. Evangelism

Christian Piatt recently posted on Red Letter Christians about the problem of "trolls" in the...

September 2011

September 21, 2011

Creating a culture of life against ideology & capital

I heard a sermon recently on the need to create a "culture of life" instead...

September 14, 2011

I Hate "No Child Left Behind," But I Love My Son's Teacher!

So tonight I began my career as a public school parent by attending our first...

September 06, 2011

Can Soccer Dads Be Christian Disciples?

I have an unpleasant health condition that occurs whenever I'm under high amounts of stress....

September 03, 2011

How We are Saved from Being

I know better than to view the comments section of online news articles as a...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Sitting with Alice & the Presence of God

Today I went to see an older woman from my church whom I'm going to...

August 22, 2011

Donna Fairchild and the Failure of Grace

I read a story on cnn.com this afternoon that really saddened me about a woman...

August 16, 2011

Anathematical: A New Category of Christian?

Along with fellow bloggers Kurt Willems and Carson Clark, I have been contemplating my identity...

August 14, 2011

Michelle Bachmann on submitting to her husband

OK, I admit it. I used Michelle Bachmann's name in the title of my blog...

August 05, 2011

Is Fatherhood Irrelevant? [My guest-blog on Pangea]

Last month, I watched the movie Tree of Life with some young adults from our...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

We can do better than "mainline"

I often tell people that fundamentalists and liberals frustrate me about equally. I just read...

July 25, 2011

Dave Ramsey: great debt advice, not so great theology

Today I watched Dave Ramsey's Great Recovery video. I think I feel something akin to...

July 09, 2011

I Want to Believe Mark Batterson But…

Perhaps other postmodern evangelicals can relate to the phenomenon of having a dual hermeneutics when...

July 01, 2011

Evangelism a.k.a. Trespassing in Northern Virginia

I put up about 600 door-hangers today in townhouse communities around Burke. Townhouses are faster...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

When Sorry Doesn’t Cut It

I've just been through a day where I have felt a lot of anger at...

June 24, 2011

Sacrifice-Envy: On Hating Megachurches & Relating to Cain

I hate megachurches probably about as much as Cain hated Abel for similar reasons. I've...