Just Getting What You Deserve? PART #1

Just getting what we deserve for not following the rules. This is A cheeky mini series of three Parts (Part #2 here “You Are Not Being Persecuted”) (Part #3 What John The Baptist Got Wrong?) I’m writing this as an illustration of what poor theology might sound like in our times. Let’s use Paul as…

As A Jesus Community Forms

We have been part of simple movements and expressions for almost thirteen years now. At one point I had not been in a traditional church building for two years (keep in mind I was in Africa for four months every year for eight years). But we went to a traditional church building an odd time,…

PART #4 The Letter We Need To Write Our Congregation Immediately!

Part #1 Cancel Church – Scatter Jesus’s Kingdom DNA This Sunday Part #2 Is Church Ever Canceled? Part #3 Smartphone Church Is Now Our Message? Where Is our Participation And Invitation For the record…. I am all for live streaming services. Thank you, all you good shepherds out there continuing to connect with your people…

Rousseau Practiced Serial Child Abandonment

Little known fact. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher actually abandoned five children to Orphanages. Isn’t it ironic that the philosopher who wrote one of the more influential books on the nature of the child and education (Emile, or also the title, On Education), would abandon his children in this way. We often have these talks…

New Fundamentalists – Not Religious But Secular Ones

“The Madman rose from prayer and walked at noon toward the well. In the burning way he met a man who bore a shovel and a scroll. Good day , Sexton he called. You feel compelled to bury Scrolls? No, madman, I took it from the old woman who died in the water line, The…

Why Run?

When a psalm seems to speak to you, this very day, despite being written 3000 years ago. “I am not longer a slave to fear, I am a child of God.” Psalm 11 In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, (2) for…

Don’t Ask For Honesty If We Are Going To Violate A Persons Vulnerability About It

I chose to withhold it…. even when asked. Because i don’t appreciate invitations into a war, flair up, or a relational suicide mission.

My Steps Toward A Smaller Carbon Footprint

Criticism of a policy is not equal to “I don’t care about the issue.” (You can skip my sermon and go right to the list below if you like) Adhominem – Attacking the person-hood of the arguer instead of addressing his argument. I care about the environment. I make my living from natures ecosystem as…

Shaking The Political Apple Tree For An Honest Apple Pie

I hate Politics, it makes me angry. Not because I am not getting my way. Simply reading political issues make me a bad person. In fact there are very few polices or laws I would like to see legislated. I might be a  kind of a libertarian or classical liberal that way.  What I am…

My Secondhand Story Of Church

I will end with a funny story. So hang in there. It was very early Sunday morning and I was up reading scripture for many hours . I was reading in the ESV translation (I use four different ones regularly ) I came to a verse in Ephesians that I am familiar with. I read…