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The Not-Quite-There Place
We’re just not quite there yet. I was reminded of that fact this week in a very abrupt manner. As a minister, I get to spend an inordinate amount of time reading, praying and thinking. I get to take...
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Week 5 of Easter: The Way, The Truth, The Life
We’ve been following this path for the past couple of weeks. First we talked about the way of life. Then having our eyes opened and how we’re still in the “in-between.” And last week was about how to...
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Pentecost: What Does This Mean?
It’s one of the great scenes in the Bible. A sound like a mighty wind filling the room. Flames sitting on the tops of heads. Uneducated men suddenly speaking in languages that they hadn’t known the...
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Ordinary Days: The Comparison
A few weeks ago, Trevor pointed out a phrase Jesus used in Matthew 11: Wisdom is vindicated by her deeds. The basic idea is that the wisdom of Jesus is vindicated by the results of doing things his...
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The Mighty Women of the Exodus and Our Response to God’s Character
What I have always found as one of the most stunning verses about the nature of God occurs as the Exodus narrative begins. It is the verse where God hears the cries of the people of Israel and moves...
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Mark Driscoll and How Our Theology Affects Our Living
Mark Driscoll had a rough summer. Believe me when I say that one of the last things I want is to add to the cacophony of evangelical vitriol that gets tossed around the internet these days. And I...
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The Art of Making Room
In the beginning there was God. God and nothing else. And then God created. But how could the Divine create in a universe that only God inhabited? If God was everywhere and in everything, God would...
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God Doesn’t Want to Smear Poop on Your Face
I recently listened to a sermon where the guy speaking spent 26 minutes on how God was mad/angry/disgusted with human beings. He lifted verse after verse about this. From there, he spent two minutes on...
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Leaning Forward
In Acts 10, Peter goes up to the roof to pray. It’s midday, he’s hungry and he falls into a trance. And long story short, the world changes. Because Peter is a Jew. No, scratch that. Peter is a GREAT...
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The Beautiful Wave of Dependence
Trevor did a great job this week of answering one of the often unspoken questions of the Christian faith: What does depending on God really look like? If you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you do....
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