N.T. Wright is one darn respected, conservative biblical scholar. He was just a young, up and coming whipper-snapper when I did the seminary scene back in the 70′s. He began making his mark at McGill University in the 80′s and that was when he came on my radar. Whatever you want to say about Wright, [...]
This is nine+ minutes long. Most of you understandably won’t want to take the time. In the light of the Rob Bell “controversy” and all of the overwhelmingly negative response, Chann makes an extremely valuable point. I am very impressed.
When I was younger, I made a trip out to New Mexico and stopped in at Carlsbad Caverns with my traveling companions. We walked for a while and the guide blithely assaulted us with detail after detail about the cave; suddenly he stopped, turned to face the group and said, “Everybody put your hand on the shoulder [...]
For several decades I labored in the church environment and can honestly state that at this point, with hindsight, I only saw one person experience true conversion from darkness to light. I saw a handful experience “something;” whatever it might have been, however, isn’t having an impact on them now, decades later. I’m sure there [...]
I follow a twitterer (and blog writer) by the name of David Sitton. I love what he does in life and suppose I feel a sense of camaraderie that is bred from some sort of similarity in the way our lives have been orchestrated. He recently had an interesting article entitled The Missionary Call: How [...]
The whole Terry Jones burning the Koran thing is frustrating. The response to what he did by Muslims in Afghanistan proves to many that he is right; the response of those outside the church to him proves to them that all Christians are that way. Burning the Koran is not the way of Jesus; that [...]
What a day we had at The Message Church yesterday! It’s not every day that you are privileged to be able to ordain someone as a pastor, even more so when that person is one of your best friends. With the help of his father, pastor Bill Tyndall, I was blessed to be able to [...]
I’m excited about Sunday. I’m typically always excited about Sunday. Ever since I’ve gotten my “preach” back on, Sundays have become a day that I look forward to with anticipation. I find it so interesting that what used to be laborious work in the past has become a point of divine encounter in the present. [...]
Today is travel day… again. After the morning class, we’ll be making a dash across Curitiba to get to the airport. Bittersweet. I’m so excited about getting back and beginning to apply what I’ve learned. The future burns brighter than ever after two weeks in Brazil. Being here always cleans out my spiritual ears in [...]
My head hurts. I don’t think I’ve ever had to process as much as I have over the past week and a half; I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to what I have been exposed to… I know I haven’t. I don’t even have doubts about what I’m supposed to do with it all. [...]
