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January 2014

January 02, 2014
In a used book store in DC a couple of weeks ago, I found a...
January 01, 2014
I suck at New Year's resolutions so usually I don't even try. But my buddy...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
I've been in a pissy mood today, and it's for a lame reason. I'm tired...
December 31, 2013
The post-evangelical memoir has exploded as a genre in the wake of Rachel Held Evans'...
December 30, 2013
One of the most obnoxious things about the culture wars is the way that they...
December 28, 2013
Erick and Marlise Munoz were both paramedics. They were both around life-and-death situations on a...
December 27, 2013
This Christmas, I stumbled over a verse, Luke 2:39, that I had never noticed before:...
December 26, 2013
It was so great to fast from my blog over Advent. The only thing I...
December 25, 2013
Emmanuel. God with us. That is the meaning of Christmas. Jesus was born to show...
December 23, 2013
I keep on forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Isaiah 11 says that the messiah's...
December 12, 2013
Hope you've been having a wonderful Advent. I've gotten backed up in sharing my sermon...
December 06, 2013
It's been wonderful not blogging or surfing social media this week. Lat night, God gave...
December 02, 2013
Henri Nouwen's book In The Name of Jesus names three temptations for Christian leaders based...
December 01, 2013
My wife and I watched "12 Years A Slave" this weekend. Needless to say, it...

November 2013

November 29, 2013
As I was reading several interviews with people standing in line for this year's Black...
November 29, 2013
It seemed appropriate to write about the word Eucharist since it means "thanksgiving" in Greek....
November 27, 2013
Dave Ramsey recently posted on his blog a list of 20 things that rich people...
November 23, 2013
Growing up in the church, I would often hear the phrase, "We're just pilgrims passing...
November 22, 2013
I had a good discussion yesterday with my pastor covenant group about our discernment process...
November 20, 2013
This week, the United Methodist Church put a pastor on trial named Frank Schaefer for...
November 19, 2013
Please excuse the gratuitous selfie; I couldn't think of another graphic to use. I was...
November 18, 2013
There are few things that make my blood boil more than to see someone take...
November 14, 2013
Thomas Frank, the guy who wrote our textbook on United Methodist polity, has made a...
November 13, 2013
Our senior pastor Larry Buxton, who's a baseball nut, says that parables are supposed to...
November 06, 2013
A friend pointed me to Tim Challies' recent interview with John MacArthur in which MacArthur...
November 05, 2013
My wife and I wanted to watch a light film at home this past Saturday...
November 04, 2013
My wife is the one who follows the parenting expert books that teach you better...
November 03, 2013
Last weekend, I preached on the passage from Joel that Peter quoted in his famous...
November 01, 2013
It's stewardship season in many churches around the country. As my friend Jason Micheli wrote,...

October 2013

October 30, 2013
I'm not a pacifist or a pansy (other than the fact that I'm not very...
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