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March 2020

March 30, 2020

Zen and God’s Grace

One consistent part of my spiritual journey for the past twenty years has been my...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

Klingon Christians and their gospel coalitions

In a recent post, Peter Enns writes about a certain type of Christian who doesn't...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Is God’s love more holy than his holiness is loving?

It may seem like a nonsensical distinction but I think it makes all the difference...

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,...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: April-May

In March, I fasted from blogging for Lent. April and May of 2012 were dominated...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Garden Walls (a reappropriated love song about prevenient grace)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQh6eISTpHM&feature=youtu.be In 1999, I wrote a sonnet while sitting on a couch at a party...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

What prevenient grace is and isn’t

"We stand united in declaring our faith that God’s grace is available to all ––...

August 2011

August 01, 2011

Why God-reliance and self-reliance are utterly incompatible

I know that I got under some people's skin for beefing with Dave Ramsey on...

July 2011

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...

June 2011

June 17, 2011

God's not at work unless I'm in charge

I'm continuing my travelogue through Willie Jennings' Christian Imagination as a way of coping with...

June 17, 2011

God’s not at work unless I’m in charge

I'm continuing my travelogue through Willie Jennings' Christian Imagination as a way of coping with...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

On the Cross but Never Abandoned

Walking in the Valley Lenten Series #4, 4/3/2011 Text: Psalm 22 When I was young...

May 16, 2011

A New Song

Sermon for 1/15-16/2011 Text: Psalm 40:1-11 We live in a world of competing narratives. Nothing...

May 16, 2011

Greed: Where do you draw the line?

Deadly Sin Sermon Series, 5 out of 7 -- 11/13/2010 Text: Mark 10:17-22 We all...

May 16, 2011

Survivor vs. the Body of Christ

Sermon for 9/18/2010 Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 So I decided to do my first multimedia...