Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 Responding to Homosexuality
A friend of mine at the church recently sent me a blog post that many of his friends were commenting on. He asked if I could help him frame a "Christian response". Rather than respond to him only, I've put both the original article and some general guidelines following into this post. The issue in question is common and the opinions expressed by the author are becoming increasingly mainstream, particularly within the nominally Christian community. In fact, in...keep reading»»
Mon. Mar. 28, 2011 Salt vs. Assault
How to be an agent of change without becoming a church terroristkeep reading»»
Thu. Jan. 20, 2011 "Slippery Slope" Vs. Suspending Judgement
A lot of pastors don't preach through the Bible anymore and there are probably a variety of reasons for that. One of the reasons is that there are a lot of landmines in the text of Holy Scripture. It's a lot of fun to preach on 1 Timothy until you get to chapter 2 and it doesn't get any better in chapter 3. It would be great to preach on Romans except that you'd have to start with chapter one, and if you've read it, you know what I'm talking about. I made a decision a long...keep reading»»