Window Shutters and Keeping up Appearances

I was sitting in my car yesterday with one of the girls from my Sunday school class. We had gone to lunch and were now waiting for her mom to get home because she had forgotten her key and couldn’t get in the house. As we were waiting, she started telling me about her neighbors. [...]

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Fuel for a Growing Fire

Some have asked me why I am considering the pursuit of a PhD. Others ask why I have such a passion for teaching youth, particularly middle schoolers. I think the results in this report can shed some light on that.
Youth today view religion as a very small and mainly irrelevant section of their lives. [...]

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Big Picture Thinking in an Ever Shrinking World

The story of Aggie Hurst is an amazing example of how God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. When we see nothing but our own, pain, suffering, frustration, or mere inconvenience, we miss the work that God is doing. So often we are stopped cold in our tracks by [...]

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Pharisees in the Local Church?

JD Greear has posted a great blog with his observations concerning Matthew 23 and Jesus’ take on the religious folks of His day. His description of the Pharisees sounds quite similar to many descriptions we hear today of the local church. This is a great read for checking our individual and collective focus and intention [...]

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Response to Misty Irons

Last week I wrote a response to Wesley Hill’s article about Christian homosexuals and the struggles they face. Misty Irons also wrote a response to that article and to several blog comments related to it. Her response has been discussed on numerous blogs as well. This is my response to Misty.
I agree wholeheartedly with [...]

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