Mission plus golf equals fun and more fun!
So there’s nothing like combining a beautiful fall day, tons of sunshine, golf with good friends, and raising money for
Category: The Church
Urban Legends, the Politics of Outrage, and Excising Chauvinism from Ministry for Men….
“Jesus is a little more inclusive than some of his followers tend to be.” Jesus is God’s invitation; Jesus is the gate itself, not a “Check your ID at the door” gatekeeper.
Called to be faithful, not comfortable…
Do we own a faith so deeply rooted in the love of Jesus that we’re not afraid to take a few risks?
but God said, “You fool!”
That Jesus! He could take the entire sum of the wisdom collected in Ecclesiastes and condense it into one sentence.
how to be a theologian
It’s all about the seeking. We can have all the academic conversations we like about God, but if we seek God with all of our hearts – with passion and discipline and commitment and faithfulness and urgency and regularity and expectation and (well, so much more) – then and only then will we become better theologians.
faith expressed, faith taught, faith experienced
Worship – together – is a critically important element of living faithful lives. It brings what is important into clearer focus
Big Words and Big Ideas (for everyone)
The Reformation may have got going with Martin Luther in 1517, but it is sustained by the impetus of “always reforming.”
when the church youth dub their advisors with “wrestler names”
…capes and masks, strutting around, making faces, talking trash, showing the kind of enthusiasm, love, and commitment the gospel always brings out when we let Jesus be our guide.
Grateful for a room full of complex, diverse, unique, intelligent, open-spirited men
We cannot look into the sun because it would destroy our sight yet that same light is what enables us to see at all.
A wedding story – commitment to promise
I wasn’t a guest anymore. My purpose was to document the story rather than being in the story.
