Dang it. One day –when the dust settles–I will write an incessantly long blog about how things continue to happen in my life. I have a ‘chance encounter’ with someone, and the next day….BAM! God thumps me on the head like a 6th grader and says, “Dude. You totally missed it.” This morning, I read [...]
The first: Students are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God in the Christian Church, they will most likely settle for lesser gods elsewhere. The second conviction: so will we.
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In his latest Rolling Stone interview, that is. “Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers: They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.” (p.s. Kudos to my bro who scored U2 tickets this weekend in Houston….)
Mark your calendars for December 29-31, 2005 ! Where? Three Mountain Ranch Why? Our annual New Years Retreat! What’s the story with ’28 Days’? Once upon a time, there was a movie about a guy named Jim (see his pic below). Jim was a bicycle courier who awoke one day from a coma. As he [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Read This Book It is a book about sin. I realize sin is not our favorite topic. Far from it. Why? Because we all sin. Every day. It’s not just what we do, but it is part of who we are. Sin is part of our spiritual genetic makeup. We tend to [...]
I was reading this morning about Jesus’ confrontation with satan in the desert (Matthew 4:1-11) … and it reminded me of my own temptations. Scene 1 – the desert. Where we face the strongest temptations in life. Place where we are the weakest and our enemy is the strongest. Dry. Rough. Barren. Hills. Rocks. Scraggly [...]
For those of you fortunate enough to know who Steve Camp is, I have added his blog to my links. His contribution to CCM (before it sold out, IMHO) and to my own theology of grace and ecclesiology is impossible for me to articulate. I even had a good friend who served as his Nanny [...]
Steve McCoy has a great post here which got me thinking: Are we doing it (evangelism) right? Below is an excerpt from Keith Miller’s “Scent of Love”… The early church grew “not because of the [spiritual gifts] of Christians – such as the gift of speaking in tongues – and not because Christianity was such [...]
I was reading this morning about Joshua and Caleb (Numbers 13 and 14). It seems to me that revolutionaries are Dreamers. And sometimes dreamers just get in the way…It reminded me of the first Matrix movie. Remember how Morpheus always seemed to speak to Neo in a ‘dream’? (BTW, Morpheus was name of the Roman [...]