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July 2013

July 25, 2013

Letter to an atheist

Dear hitherto unknown friend, I have been invited into conversation with you by Kile Jones...

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 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...

June 2013

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 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 21, 2013

Eternal life is living in God’s poetry

Growing up evangelical, I had drilled into me the dichotomy between "the law" and "grace."...

June 12, 2013

Could you worship a God who makes Himself nothing?

[This is the first synchroblog of our new blogging collective The Despised Ones addressing the...

June 11, 2013

Eternal life is innocence restored (Journey to Eternity #1)

There has been so much extra-Biblical speculation about the implications of the Garden of Eden...

June 10, 2013

Fearing God vs. carrying a fearsome god-puppet who agrees with you

Those who have read this blog for a while will recall that about a year...

June 07, 2013

Journey to Eternity: our next sermon series

Tomorrow night I will be starting a new sermon series at LifeSign called the Journey...

May 2013

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 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 07, 2013

God’s Pentecost vs. my cynicism

God broke me today in a really good way. You see I'm a recovering cynic...

May 05, 2013

The kings of the Earth and the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:24)

The lectionary reading for last week was taken from Revelation 21-22 which describes the New...

May 04, 2013

How does Paul define sin? (Romans 14:13-23)

The Daily Office reading for today was Romans 14:13-23. I was particularly struck by verses...

May 03, 2013

Is Guantanamo Bay as far as the east is from the west?

Do you think these human beings matter to God? They certainly don't matter much to...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Privilege and Biblical interpretation

This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...

April 19, 2013

Liberated from hate: my brother Ryan’s testimony

I pray a lot for the college kids from our church. In addition to the...

April 17, 2013

Maybe God is angry at people who project their anger onto Him

If you want to know who God is really angry at, maybe you should read...

April 17, 2013

Should Christians weigh in on other peoples’ tragedies?

A friend of mine who recently had a major shift in his theology wrote the...

April 14, 2013

Why you need to hear Jonathan Martin preach about heaven

I've got issues with how people talk about heaven. It bothers me that the most...

April 08, 2013

“This is eternal life” (John 17:3)

I had a powerful encounter with today's Daily Office reading. The gospel reading was John...

April 08, 2013

Rewrite: Abraham

We've just started a sermon series in the spirit of Easter called Rewrite in which...

April 02, 2013

Fleeing the wrath to come vs. hearing the voice of love

A few months ago, a friend wrote a blog asking whether the teachings of Henri...

March 2013

March 24, 2013

Ugliness Into Beauty #6: Proof of God’s Mercy

There's an elephant in the room when we talk about the cross. The cross is...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

Eternal life: being fully present to God

There's a concept that we talk about in ministry and relationships: being fully present. I...

February 06, 2013

Moses’ veil or mirrors of glory? 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

I had a very uncanny experience today with the Daily Office. In a blog post...

January 2013

January 27, 2013

God’s grace in 4 stick figure drawings

We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...

January 27, 2013

God's grace in 4 stick figure drawings

We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...