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October 2013

October 22, 2013

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and John MacArthur’s #StrangeFire Conference

Maybe you haven't heard of John MacArthur. He hosted a conference recently called Strange Fire...

October 18, 2013

Isaiah 7 & 53: should prophecies be prooftexts?

My great-grandfather Luther Weigle [pictured here] was the dean of Yale Divinity School and chair...

October 07, 2013

The God of no compromise and the government shutdown

For many of us who grew up evangelical, the word "compromise" has always been a...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

The God who wants us to be friends #sermon #podcast

For the second weekend of our sermon series "Love Actually," we talked about philia, the...

September 18, 2013

The God who wants us to be family #podcast

We've been preaching a sermon series at Burke United Methodist Church called "Love actually" (titled...

September 17, 2013

“Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof…”

The gospel reading at my Monday mass was Luke 7:1-10, the story of the centurion...

September 14, 2013

What does Pope Francis mean by telling atheists to “abide by their own consciences”?

Well Pope Francis probably made some more Christians angry this week with a 2500 word...

September 07, 2013

Cakes and Quacks: Do Evangelicals Worship Democracy More Than Christ?

[Guest-post from fellow Virginia UMC pastor Jason Micheli: please check out his blog Tamed Cynic!]...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Why the dream has been deferred (purity culture as the backlash against the civil rights movement)

You can't say the N word anymore. You get sued if you racially discriminate in...

August 26, 2013

How the despised ones bring everything to nothing (1 Cor 1:28)

"He has chosen the lowly things of this world: the despised ones and those who...

August 21, 2013

Seven obnoxious Jesus jukes

The phrase "Jesus juke" was originally coined by Jon Acuff in a 2010 post on...

August 16, 2013

Everyday we’re posturing (Christian sin-talk with @RachelHeldEvans, @KevinWatson, and @RenovatusPastor)

To paraphrase that annoying hit dance song "Party Rock," everyday we're posturing. What I mean...

August 10, 2013

#WildGoose13: Unlearning the need to be the hero of the story

I'm having a better day today. I went to the art and spirit cafe to...

August 04, 2013

Five verses God has tattooed on my heart: #2 Matthew 9:13

I've often told the story of how I discovered the verse that became the basis...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A new metaphor for thinking about heaven and hell

I've been reading a very stimulating and provocative book by Pauline Biblical scholar Michael Gorman...

July 25, 2013

Letter to an atheist

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

July 23, 2013

Eucharist is how Jesus makes love to His church

Hear me out; I'm not trying to be offensive. Several weeks ago, I listened to...

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 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 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 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 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...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

On redemptive suffering, #abuse, and #privilege

I just looked over an essay by Katie Mulligan that deals with the topic of...

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

Paraklesis: a beautiful word (2 Corinthians 1)

The Daily Office reading for yesterday was the opening of Paul's second letter to the...

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...

June 04, 2013

Pinocchio and eternal life (my second Dominican sermon of 2013)

A few weeks ago, Bruxy Cavey at the Meeting House preached a sermon using Pinocchio...

May 2013

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 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 20, 2013

Monday Merton 5.20.13

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