Sweet Land of Liberty

On this fourth of July, I find myself incredibly grateful to live in this great country, even though we may not all agree on the decisions that our leadership makes. However, that is one of the things that makes it so great. We have a voice and we are able to express the things that […]

Noah and Marriage

It is interesting that the rainbow is the symbol that seems to be stuck in the middle of this argument about marriage. A lot of people get bent out of shape when they see the rainbow now because they feel like it has been stolen from a “biblical” point of view but maybe it helps us have at […]

The Dangers of Silence

For the past year I’ve been working on a project called “First Church of the Broken”. Currently, I am in chapter four and I have about three more chapters to go. The premise of the book is “Loving others in a world that relentlessly tears them apart.” I have felt for some time that this […]

Seventeen Years

Armageddon had just come out, Friends was still on television and the search engine Google was founded. The Bulls were the NBA national champions. Clinton was impeached. (No comments please). “Gettin’ Jiggy with it” was a really popular song. Try getting that song out of your head now. (Na-na, na, na, na-na, na…you’re turn.) You’re […]

Me and KJV

I am pretty jacked! This Sunday I am starting a class called “Reading Your Bible”. I am passionate about this study because my life was changed due to my relationship with God and His love letter to us. Here’s how it all started. Me and KJV – I remember being a High School student and making the […]

Accusations

Just as a refresher, I’m writing some thoughts down about the Church and how we are charged with loving others in a world that relentlessly tears them apart. We’ve talked a little bit about how part of our problem as the Church is that we’ve targeted other people as our enemy when in fact our […]

The Exorcist and Voices in my head

One of the most terrifying movies of my childhood was the “Exorcist”. Just to clarify, I saw it on television and my parents were not on board with me seeing movies like this. My cousin was watching it and I happened to walk into the room. You know, how many stories of debauchery start. When […]

Flying Dragon Kick

KAIDO – My son Kaiden is currently five years old, about to be six. He is incredible. He is a ball of energy. His favorite thing to do is to wrestle daddy. It starts as soon as my eyes open in the morning. Kaiden has on occasion climbed up into our bed and done a […]

Broken Allegiance

The following post is an excerpt from a book I am writing on loving others relentlessly in a world that tears them apart. Last time I posted we were talking about the dysfunctions that we see in the Church worldwide. This is not specific to any local church environment that I have been in but […]

Identity drift

I am not a church historian. Some of you just sighed a sigh of relief. Sure I’ve read a few books on church history and we talked about it in seminary but it isn’t really my cup of tea. I’m more of a coffee person while we’re on the topic. Trust me when I say […]