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June 05, 2012
Getting to know God through people we just barely got to know
The other night, I had a conversation with a fellow member of our church's Dominican...
June 03, 2012
Holiness and the fear of God (Isaiah 6)
Today I preached at the iglesia evangélica dominicana de Sosua here in the Dominican Republic...
May 2012
May 31, 2012
Why we need more than a therapist God
I've been reading through Stanley Hauerwas' Working with Words. I just read an essay in...
May 30, 2012
Some clarifications regarding holiness & moralistic therapeutic deism
One of my favorite things about Stanley Hauerwas is the way he says outlandish, exaggerated...
May 29, 2012
Is Jesus a moralistic therapeutic deist?
When Christian Smith and Melinda Denton coined the phrase "moralistic therapeutic deism" in 2005, it...
May 29, 2012
Is God Against Hegemony? (The Question of Babel)
There is probably not a more awkward passage for Biblical literalists than the story of...
May 22, 2012
Trust not opinion
In the information age, people define themselves primarily by their opinions rather than their actual...
May 21, 2012
Why does God make eunuchs? (Matthew 19:12)
As I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store this week, I...
May 18, 2012
The witness of the sons of hell
The 23rd chapter of Matthew is probably the harshest speech that Jesus ever gave. We...
May 17, 2012
“I desire mercy not sacrifice”
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice'" (Matthew 9:13). There...
May 17, 2012
"I desire mercy not sacrifice"
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice'" (Matthew 9:13). There...
May 15, 2012
Come change the world with us!
Change the world. It's such an undifferentiated, macroscopic goal -- the main theme of every...
May 12, 2012
12 things about my mom
1) She woke me up every morning until I left for college by yanking the...
May 11, 2012
Obama’s big gamble and how Christians should respond
I was surprised to see President Obama take a public stand supporting gay marriage this...
May 10, 2012
My Twelve Fundamentals
Between 1910 and 1915, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles published a twelve volume series...
May 09, 2012
Wisdom from heaven (James 3:17)
"The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive,...
May 09, 2012
Sixty percent: a poem
Sixty percent is a supermajority, who took time out of their busy schedules, who needed...
May 07, 2012
Amendment 1: when did legislation replace evangelism?
Two weekends ago, our church's men's retreat examined and discussed one of my favorite scripture...
May 03, 2012
Don’t hate our purple UMC
In 2 Samuel 12, when Bathsheba's first son was dying, David fasted and clamored with...
May 02, 2012
What prevenient grace is and isn’t
"We stand united in declaring our faith that God’s grace is available to all ––...
May 01, 2012
Biblical and inclusive: Methodism wrestles with homosexuality
“No scripture can mean that God is not love and that His mercy is not...
April 2012
April 29, 2012
Stop bearing false witness!
For our church's men's retreat this weekend, we read sections from 1 Peter. One of...
April 28, 2012
What must inclusivity exclude?
"All means all." It's a battle-cry that is appropriately Wesleyan. Since we believe in prevenient...
April 27, 2012
How will you avoid creating a CYA culture, #GC2012?
Tom Berlin, a pastor and clergy delegate from my conference for whom I have a...
April 26, 2012
Bullying and humanity at General Conference
First off, I'm aware that I didn't witness what happened tonight in person. Mark Miller,...
April 26, 2012
Anxiety vs. Kingdom in the United Methodist Church
I've been following the "Call to Action" debate on the twitter feeds from the Methodist...
April 24, 2012
What I taught the confirmands: the sea of wrath and island of mercy
For the past two years at our church's confirmation retreat, I've shared a message based...
April 18, 2012
Why I’m not afraid of General Conference
I've been thinking a lot about John Meunier's question "What would it take for us...
April 17, 2012
Opinion and relationship: the two American evangelical idolatries
Everyone else is writing about the “crisis” of American Christianity so I figured I’d add...
April 14, 2012
“Government handouts” that “create dependency”
When some people talk about taxes and government programs for poor people, they often talk...
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