I have spent the last two days driving from my home in Arlington, TX to Jacksonville, FL where my lovely wife grew up. One of the things I planned to accomplish on my trip was to listen to Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins on audiobook. I loved the fact that it was actually read [...]
Tags: Love Wins, Rob Bell
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Ted Haggard interviewed on restoration Click Here to view embedded video I have to admit that I have a certain fascination with Ted Haggard. Ever since his scandal broke (I had not heard of him before that) I have followed his story with a kind of macabre fascination with the hope that something positive will [...]
Tags: Biblical Restoration, Ted Haggard
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Earlier today, Jennifer Wright Knust wrote an opinion article on CNN saying that the traditional understanding of male-female relationships and homosexuality are wrong and the Bible’s original plan for mankind was not heterosexuality but androgyny. Her thinking here is that Adam’s original form had both sets of genetalia until God split him with the creation [...]
Tags: human sexuality, marriage, Response to Jennifer Wright Knust's CNN post
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“I have yet to find a single case where doctrinal FANTATICISM was not rooted in a personal hurt or insecurity.” -Rick Warren Here I was all set to write something about my New Year’s Resolutions when this shows up in my Twitter stream and it struck me so oddly that i needed to say something [...]
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I have been watching with fascination our efforts at nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan and like most Americans haven’t really seen progress you would hope to see. Looking at the history of the region I’ve wondered if there isn’t something inherent in the people of that region that predisposes them toward totalitarian regimes. How can [...]
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Every once in a while, some new fad takes over my FaceBook wall and I’m forced to wade through dozens of posts promoting awareness for some new cause. Sometimes it’s the color of a woman’s bra to promote Breast Cancer Awareness or some other bit of trivia for the Cause of the Minute. This last [...]
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In yesterday’s sermon, we spent a great deal of time on the subject of martyrdom. Talking about the possibility of giving your life for the sake of the Gospel is always a little uncomfortable in my Western, well-fed, prosperous context. Martyrdom seems like such a remote possibility that I would do better to be worried [...]
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If you haven’t seen the trailer for this movie, take a minute and watch it. I was watching an interview of the writers for this film the other day and I can tell you that they seem to be nice guys with a genuine heart to introduce God to the world. Of course, [...]
Tags: I AM, Movie Review
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Rachel Held Evans has decided to live like a Biblical woman for one year. You would think that would be great but she apparently has an incredibly bad idea of what Biblical womanhood actually is. To her it means this: (Click through to see video) Some of these ideas she has are incredibly offensive and [...]
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Last night my darling wife and I got free tickets to see the new documentary “Waiting for Superman”. It was a very interesting movie covering the way our public education system in America has been broken. There are school systems that consistently churn out under-performing students and drop-outs. There are school systems in America that [...]
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