I am blogging my way through N.T. Wright’s book The Day the Revolution Began, creating an outline of the book as a small group study I am leading at our church. This is the fourth of six blogs in this series. All quotations followed by …
Read MoreN.T. Wright and the Revolutionary Cross: Week 3
I am blogging my way through N.T. Wright’s book The Day the Revolution Began, creating an outline of the book as a small group study I am leading at our church. This is the third of six blogs in this series. All quotations followed by …
Read MoreN.T. Wright and the Revolutionary Cross: Week 2
I am blogging my way through N.T. Wright’s book The Day the Revolution Began, creating an outline of the book as a small group study I am leading at our church. This is the second of six blogs in this series. All quotations followed by …
Read MoreN.T. Wright and the Revolutionary Cross: Week 1
I am blogging my way through N.T. Wright’s book The Day the Revolution Began, creating an outline of the book as a small group study I am leading at our church. This is the first of six blogs in this series. All quotations followed by a …
Read MoreHow Tom Wright is Saving Evangelicalism
Well looky here! A new blog post. I realize that I have not been posting here very often , but I am preparing to lead a six-week small group study of The Day the Revolution Began by N.T. (Tom) Wright and I had some thoughts …
Read MoreWhen Death Is So Near: A Spoken Word Poem
Yesterday I did something impulsively, something I had never done before. Let me back up and offer some context… My friend Ruthie Johnson wrote a poem yesterday. She is a person of color and lives 5 miles from where Philando Castile was shot. She wrote …
Read MoreBook Review: How Jesus Saves the World From Us
Morgan Guyton is on a journey. He has left behind Christian fundamentalism with its debilitating toxins and has trekked his way through the expanse of God’s wide-open grace. His book How Jesus Saves the World From Us serves, in part, as a chronicle of that …
Read MoreBook Review: People to Be Loved by Preston Sprinkle
I have been anticipating the release of this important and timely book for some time. I have followed the author’s blogs on the subject and listened to him talk about the project for a while now. Understanding how to love our LGBT neighbors is an …
Read MoreWendell Berry, “To a Siberian Woodsman”
Today was a day full of activity…meetings, emails, and phone conversations. The work of a pastor is not a weekend gig and neither is it a 9-5, clock-in/clock-out kind of vocation. I love serving the church, but it requires us to wear a lot of …
Read MoreTeaching Christians to Speak Christian: 12 Essential Words
One of the things I enjoy about distance running is the time it gives me to think. While on a long run this morning, I began to think about our task of making disciples of the Jesus way. I was thinking these things not because …
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