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June 2013

June 26, 2013

Just getting on with it…

This week I'm in the stunningly green English countryside with friends from around the globe...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Keeping on…because life is like snow; and rain

You're in a relationship with a particularly annoying family member or coworker. You're doing your...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

It’s my body, and I’ll do what I want to – the myth of private sexual ethics

"We're two consenting adults. What we do behind a closed door is nobody's business." There,...

January 15, 2013

Keeping Sexual Issues in Proportion: This isn’t baseball – it’s faith!

Baseball was in the news last week and the lesson it offers us has everything...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

Camp China – reminders of what really matters…

It had been years since I'd thought about Tienanmen Square until last night. Like the...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

the danger of saying: “I just do what the Bible says…”

" I just follow the Bible" is a potentially ridiculous and dangerous thing to say. ...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Public Vice and Private Virtue

I was privileged to attend the Annual Seattle Pacific Business Breakfast yesterday and listen to...

April 04, 2012

Learning to Lead: Lamb-style

It's early - 5:30 or so, when I hear the first birds of morning as...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Women in the Church – Snapshot of censorship and call for repentance

Eldon Epp is the author of a little book entitled Junia: The First Woman Apostle. ...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Branding & PR vs. The Way of Jesus

As I prepare for Lent, I'm struck this morning by Jesus' admonition in Luke 8:56. ...

February 07, 2012

All Poverty is Relational: What does that mean?

I'm riding my bike to work on a frosty morning this winter when I encounter...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

The Challenges of Wealth and the Call of Christ

David Brooks recent NY Times article entitled "The Great Divorce" speaks of what is becoming...

January 06, 2012

Co-illumination: Preaching from the text of life

This Sunday, I'll be starting a new series at our church entitled, "Every Square Inch: ...

January 02, 2012

Hope for the New Year: Let’s get beyond “NO”

If history tells us one thing, it's that humans are good at saying NO to...

December 2011

December 05, 2011

Spiritual Fashionistas: It’s not about the clothes – it’s about the body in the clothes

I just returned from a worship service here in Austria on this 2nd Sunday in...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

The whales and Isaiah: finding God’s vision for living (Part I)

Back in the '80s, I moved from Los Angeles to a small island, a jewel...

October 14, 2011

The political problem: policy trumps people

I posted this picture on my Facebook account recently and oh my! People do feel...

October 10, 2011

Churches are dying because young people are shut out. Let’s fix this.

Churches are strange. If a steel plant closes in a Rust Belt city, you can...

October 04, 2011

People are hungry–is the church feeding them?

NOTE: I'm going to be blogging over at Patheos, at least for a few months....

September 2011

September 14, 2011

“Individual Morality” = Oxymoronic Half Truth

A recent NY Times editorial exposes the reality that emerging generations have almost no sense...

September 14, 2011

“Individual Morality” = Oxymoronic half-truth

A recent NY Times editorial exposes the reality that emerging generations have almost no sense...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

Fall line – why the hard path is actually life-giving

Enter through the narrow gate...for the gate is small and the way is narrow that...

June 2011

June 11, 2011

Pentecost…empowered for what?

This is the weekend of Pentecost in the church calendar year, which means it's the...

June 07, 2011

Skinny Church – the wrong fast for a hungry world

If nutrition is a hobby of yours, then you know that something as simple and...

June 07, 2011

Skinny Church – the wrong fast for a hungry world

If nutrition is a hobby of yours, then you know that something as simple and...

May 2011

May 28, 2011

Messiah complex and conventional wisdom: a marriage made in hell

Two books found their way into my world this spring, and their convergence has helped...

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