We’ve been talking about caring for people around us recently. In the conversation we’ve talked about the idea of caring for the homeless, the fatherless, people who can’t care for themselves and so on. It’s been interesting to see how younger evangelicals are changing in their attitudes about these issues from their predecessors.
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I was sitting there listening to a guy pray for a family who had recently lost a loved one. He said, roughly, “Lord we thank you that for the Christian life only begins at death.â€? Now, I know my response to this reveals a lot about my own heart and how messed up […]
I’ve really gotten into rock climbing over the last eight months. I’m not all that good, although you couldn’t tell it by either my gear or enthusiasm. But it is a lot of fun. I love the challenge of a new problem, of lines I have yet to conquer.
Over the last several […]
Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in? Are there ever times or places for anyone else where you just feel like you are really strange because you are so different from everyone around you? I have those moments all too often.
Yesterday I had one of those moments as I thought about […]
I was thinking about some things this morning related to the ideas of doubt and hypocrisy. I want to keep this post short, so I will try to summarize the back story a bit and only focus on the doubt issue.
It is interesting to me how many religious people get all fired up about making sure […]
I’ve been considering an idea for some time now and was in a situation to re-address it last night (and this morning). Over the last several years I have come to discover how little I really know myself. You know…the real me, those things deep within myself that no one sees directly (sometimes not even myself); but […]
As I read my book this morning I came across a passage where the author makes some very astute observations about the modern theological project. Now I know theology is looked down upon by most people today, especially Christians, but bear with me because I think you will like what he has to teach […]
I have been working through one of several books recently and today I came to a chapter where the author is arguing that we need to remold our understanding of Protestant. Classically this means protest and in particular a protest that began in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The author goes on to say that maybe we […]
I led the football chapel this morning and it reminded of some things that have been helpful for me over the last several months. One of the coaches, in his weekly pep talk, was reminding the defense about the high expectation that he has for them. He told them they’ve been coddled all their lives and so […]
I’ve posted an email conversation I had with a friend the other day. I edited some of the correspondence for spelling and clarity. What you find below is pretty much our conversation though. I thought my friend had some good insight on the issue of ordination and the larger issue of God’s […]
