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N.T Wright // a nice challenge to my beliefs

It’s been a little while since Kristen and I have been able to get away and just relax. So this week, we’re hitting the beach for some time to refocus and recalibrate before diving back in to the second half of the year with all of it’s new responsibilities and challenges. No internet this week, [...]

Called Out // to look different

I hear this phrase often. “You are to look different than the world.” Or, “I question those ‘believers’ who look like the world.” Or, “That church is too worldly.” And when I hear these phrases, I wonder what they really mean. I understand that Scripture over and again that we have been “called out” or [...]

Maundy Thursday // the beginning

I have no idea what Maundy Thursday is. (So I paused and went and googled the term right after I wrote that sentence.) Pretty interesting. It comes from the Latin ‘mandatum’ (meaning commandment) from the phrase Jesus spoke saying, “A new commandment I give you, love one another as I have loved you.” That’s good [...]

12 guys conversations // musings from an airplane

Wondering if the disciples sat around and talked among themselves and maybe uttered these words, “Guys, what was He thinking? We were the most unprepared people to lead in the whole world.” I’ve been there before. Looking back and evaluating the circumstance though, I have to say, I may have been totally unprepared, but I [...]

Jesus Stink // sounds weird huh

One last post on Reggie McNeal’s book “Missional Renaissance.”  I finished it up last night on the plane and I ran across this question that Reggie posed to his audience…which just so happens included me. The question, “Do you have the stink of Jesus on you?” I don’t know if I’ve ever had that question [...]

Jesus Thoughts // He wasn’t crazy

Jesus was not crazy…but I confess that sometimes He comes across as quite confusing and difficult to understand as I read through Luke’s version of Jesus’ life, and sometimes I can see why people thought he was crazy. Someone’s thinking that last statement is sacrilegious, and I’m certain that at some level it probably is, [...]

Suburban Jesus

After reading a post on the “suburban Jesus” this morning, there is something brewing deep inside once again that makes me want to write. The only problem is that I don’t know fully how to explain what I am feeling. A few words come and I start to chase a thought, and then I erase [...]

chew on this

I’m dropping a paragraph on you from Pop Goes the Church a book by Tim Stevens. (He says on his blog that its better to just quote a person rather than making you go to their site and read stuff from him, but you should still go to his site and check it out. Tim [...]