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October 27, 2013

Sowing God’s new covenant (Reformation Sunday sermon podcast)

I'm a week behind on sharing my sermon podcast, but it actually seems to go...

October 25, 2013

Learning how to use authority responsibly

The Despised Ones are doing a synchroblog on leadership. I hate the idea of leadership....

October 23, 2013

Wisdom is to rest in Jesus

At our church staff meeting today, we looked at this reading from Matthew 11:25-30: At...

October 22, 2013

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and John MacArthur’s #StrangeFire Conference

Maybe you haven't heard of John MacArthur. He hosted a conference recently called Strange Fire...

October 21, 2013

Fasting, my iPhone, and praying Hebrew

I've contributed a guest post today at Suzannah Hartzell Paul's blog about my strange spiritual...

October 19, 2013

“Seek the welfare of the city to which I’ve sent you” (sermon transcript + #podcast)

Last Sunday was week two of our sermon series "By the rivers of Babylon: how...

October 18, 2013

Isaiah 7 & 53: should prophecies be prooftexts?

My great-grandfather Luther Weigle [pictured here] was the dean of Yale Divinity School and chair...

October 17, 2013

Singing songs of Zion in Babylon

For the month of October, our LifeSign service at Burke United Methodist Church is journeying...

October 16, 2013

A second chance to love a stranger

I got an email yesterday from a church member that made my heart swell and...

October 15, 2013

The painter’s studio: a metaphor for thinking about worship

I'm at the semiannual Five Talent Academy gathering. It's an initiative of the Virginia Methodist...

October 12, 2013

Ben Carson’s irresponsible rhetoric is not conservative

1 Peter 1:22 says, "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so...

October 10, 2013

Why Ted Cruz is losing my generation of evangelicals

When you grow up evangelical, you view everything about politics through the lens of your...

October 09, 2013

Sometimes customer service sucks, but sometimes you get a person like Tumeka

This is not the normal theological fare for my blog but yesterday I had an...

October 08, 2013

A Tale of Two Tables (reblogged from Heather Goodman)

[This is a reblog post from my friend Heather Goodman who describes experiencing a phenomenon...

October 07, 2013

The God of no compromise and the government shutdown

For many of us who grew up evangelical, the word "compromise" has always been a...

October 06, 2013

Would you refuse to negotiate if…?

Whatever your opinion about whose fault it is, our government has gotten beyond ridiculous. Many...

October 05, 2013

Testimony of a happily married intersex eunuch (Lianne Simon’s story)

[This guest post comes from Lianne Simon, a woman who was born with sexual ambiguity...

October 04, 2013

Russell Moore vs. Pope Francis on evangelism

Only a Southern Baptist like Russell Moore would be crass enough to refer to a...

October 03, 2013

The God who wants us to be gifts (agape love) #sermon #podcast

If you do right in order to be right, you're doing it for the wrong...

October 02, 2013

Rick Joyner, Larry Huch, and false prophecy

There's one thing that makes me madder at God than anything else. It's actually not...

October 02, 2013

The God who wants us to stay thirsty

Eros is an exasperatingly paradoxical kind of love. It is most fulfilled by being perpetually...

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