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    "I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me."

    (Gal. 2:20 CEV)

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    • Sunday, December 28th, 2008

    Sermon: “Every Knee Shall Bow”

    I shared the final installment of our Bethlehem Bound Series today. My text was from Matthew 2:1-2. God has been stoking and stirring the fires of my heart in recent days with meditations from Romans and the Gospel of John. My take on this chapter of the Nativity Story was a little different than what [...]

    Saturday, December 20th, 2008

    Link Love

    Found a lot of cool stuff around the webworld and blogosphere in recent days and thought I’d share some of it with you. Let’s start with church marketing guru Richard Reising who makes an excellent point about helping to bridge “outsiders” to be “insiders” with his continuing Starbucks analogy.
    Brian McLaren furnishes a passel of interesting [...]

    Friday, December 19th, 2008

    More “believe with your heart”

    I’m resurrecting a post from a few months ago because I think the message is congruent with what has been on my own heart the past couple of weeks. I’ve been thinking, meditating, reading, and posting what it means to “believe with your heart.” In keeping with that teaching, I want to remind my readers [...]

    Thursday, December 11th, 2008

    Book Review: The Orthodox Study Bible

    Let  me begin this review to say that I am a Christian; my experience in Christianity is Protestant with a history beginning in the Baptist church then migrating to the “Jesus Movement” and the charismatic. Most of my teen and young adult years were spent in the Pentecostal denominations primarily with the Assemblies of God [...]

    Thursday, December 11th, 2008

    A Christ-mas Season

    A couple of years ago, disturbed by the trend of “political correctness” and how its pervasiveness had crept into the celebration of Christmas, I sat down and wrote a poem. I received a poem today that reminded me of the one I had written and thought I’d blow the dust off it and post it [...]

    Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

    Book Review: Spectacular Sins

    I just finished reading the book Spectacular Sins by John Piper and while I’m not quite sure that I share the same perspective and point of view as JP, I did enjoy the book. I was in agreement with the ultimate consensus and bottom-line conclusion of Spectacular Sins, but did (and presently do not) not [...]

    Monday, December 1st, 2008

    Going Deep

    I’m getting messed up…in a good way; I think.
    So, I got this book a week or so ago for a review project. The book, Soul Revolution, by John Burke is about becoming fully awake to the practice and presence of God. Burke facilitates this journey of discovery through an experiment called the 60-60 challenge (more [...]

    Sunday, November 30th, 2008

    How We Met

    Last weekend Laurie and I hosted and led a marriage enrichment weekend retreat. We shared portions of our testimony with video curriculum to supplement the teaching. One of the testimonials was me sharing some of the “standing stones” aka “God-encounter-markers” of my life. I have uploaded a .pdf copy here for reading.
    If you enjoyed this [...]

    Thursday, November 27th, 2008

    Book Review: The Greatest Words Ever Spoken

    I have to admit that I was skeptical when I was told about this book by a friend; three days later I received an email from the book’s publisher with an invitation to review the book. I was still dubious about its format, but was rather intrigued over the fact that I heard the title [...]