I’m starting a new multi-part series of blog posts. I have been thinking about identity for the last few years, and I keep coming head to head with the fact that we don’t have our story straight. That we are identifying with our sin, identifying with all these things that we aren’t to identify with. [...]
I cant seem to shake 1 Corinthians 13 from my mind. I’m not going to write much here. I am just going to give you the whole chapter to take in (NIV): If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a [...]
Do I believe theology and doctrine are unimportant? Not by any means. But I do believe there needs to be a perfect balance, and God has been tipping my scales in the right direction.
Sometimes the simplest spiritual metaphors are the best ones. My son Rowan is almost two. He has discovered that he loves being outside, and he loves going for walks. All I have to do is say “do you want to go for a walk?” Once I say that sentence, he will stop at nothing to [...]
This post is a response to Israel’s last post. Read it here. I totally understand what Israel said. To boil it down, generally, if you are a Christian who was raised in America, you have dealt with fear, guilt, homophobia, hatred of other religions and those not like you, etc. Many of us have discovered [...]
Easter Sunday. Resurrection day. I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ve been to many churches, been a part of many denominations. One thing all these churches agree on is the Resurrected Christ. That’s a good thing. But the view of the Resurrected Christ that I’ve taken part in my whole life goes something like [...]
I’ve become somewhat of a gnostic lately. I don’t like it at all. Don’t get me wrong, I love reason. I love logic. I love science. I absolutely love reading and learning. As a kid, I used to read encyclopedias for fun. And now, I still find myself getting sucked into 45-minute Wikipedia binges. But [...]
Well, I am. But this isn’t about that. This is about the brilliant thing that was said at the end of the last Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien:
I’m going to preface this post by saying that I do not have these thoughts together. This started as something I brought up in a discussion with a good friend, kind of pulling a devil’s advocate move. A couple of days later, I talked about it with my co-author, Israel, only in a little bit [...]
About six weeks ago, Ciara and I decided that our house is probably too small to introduce another child into, as well as our mortgage-payment-to-house-size ratio becoming more and more unjustifiable. We decided it was time to sell, in hopes we could be out of there before the baby is born. Meeting with the realtor, [...]
