Monkey See, Monkey Do… the cycle of discipleship that replicates as seers become seen, but also a cycle that has no end on this side of the resurrection, as a seen monkey never loses the responsibility to see other monkeys. You might n...
I am not a huge fan of meetings. I lack the skill set that would lead me to excel at sitting in one place, “paying attention” for minutes on end, especially when I have to travel out of state to attend one of these debacles. While I kn...
Opportunities to apply the model of defiance that Jesus is presenting abound.… As we journey through our days and weeks, the friction that comes from our journey intersecting the journey of others gives us the battleground of spiritual...
Last week, our blog began by recalling how we opened our new year and winter teaching series with an acknowledgement that we are all in process, that God is at work in all of us, and that because we are finishing works, we cannot expec...
When we kicked off the new year and began our series in the Gospel of Mark, we started off with a science experiment. If you were with us that Sunday, I asked everyone to put two fingers along their jugular and raise their hand if they...
At some point, it has to be about behavior, right? This is an important question to consider alongside an emerging posture we have spoken about over the past few years, the posture of belonging over behavior.Â
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Jesus as our comforter… This is a weird way to start a blog in the midst of our Defiance series, especially with all the sermons I have preached that call us away from comfort-based decisions. There is so much in scripture that present...
Our Defiance series this past Sunday saw Jesus recast the legal paradigm of a relationship with God. Using the sabbath as the vehicle for His defiance allowed Jesus to present two possible outcomes to interacting with scripture and the...
“Whatever it be that makes us trust in ourselves that we are comparatively wise or good, so as to treat those with contempt who do not subscribe to our doctrines, or follow our party, is a proof and fruit of a self-righteous spirit.”
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Several months ago, I saw yet another in a years-long series of events that I can only characterize as the church persecuting itself. While this was not the first and definitely not the last time an event like this has occurred, it was...
As we begin this new series together, our Wednesday blog will often feel like a clearing house for all of the thoughts that surround our Sunday messages, as well as an invitation for discussion and discernment. In many respects, the pr...
Kicking off 2024, I hope your holiday season provided a restful and joyful end to 2023 and a hopeful beginning to 2024…. 2024 holds the promise of an interesting year but also gains custody of the reality that there is nothing new unde...
