There's a hundred and four days of summer vacation
'Til school comes along just to end it
So the annual problem for our generation
Is finding a good way to spend it…
Summer is the time of year I know there is a God. Sometimes I wonder ...
Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist. So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and us...
Why all this legalism talk? I had a great conversation last week that started with a question about the focus of our Sunday morning teaching, Why has there been such a focus on legalism and free grace? Isn’t there more to talk about, a...
Mountain Dew and Taco Bell, fuel for life…for me as a middle schooler. Man, these two things together made existence worth existing. All things could be made right with the proper application of that lightningy tasting, fluorescent yel...
Free grace, cheap grace and costly grace have been a part of the last few blogs and Sunday messages as we unpack Paul’s letter to the Galatian church. Last week’s blog leaned on pastor and author Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s contrast of free ...
We have a pretty awesome confluence of scripture and events to experience this coming Sunday.… We get to celebrate Pentecost, one of the three major celebrations for followers of Jesus, and we get to do it together, twice in one day! O...
Holy discontentment.… That phrase has met me each time my mind has gone idle since this weekend. When the tasks of the day or the conversation in front of me is not taking up my available disk space, holy discontentment has been resona...
This past Sunday, we had a new term rise out of the soil of the Billings Vineyard lexicon. Just as the weeds sprout after the springtime rains, the term goat head gospel came bursting forth as a new descriptor of the antithesis of the ...
Science is one of those double-edged swords.… In many ways, science provides an awesome template for how to engage the natural world and leverage that engagement to understand creation and how we can live as a part of it. I often think...
Yes, the Defiance series is over…or is it? Yes. But not yet. I have a feeling that this series will have some legs in the life of our congregation. Defiance has served as a helpful paradigm to compare the difference between the way cul...
24 Suddenly, Festus shouted, “Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!”
25 But Paul replied, “I am not insane, Most Excellent Festus. What I am saying is the sober truth. 26 And King Agrippa knows about these things. I...
The last blog of our Defiance series… a time to evaluate what we will take on as an addition to our identity as the Vineyard, as the Body of Christ, what didn’t stick, and what might only be for our current season. Monkey see, monkey d...
