Last week I made a quick trip up to Bellingham to do a memorial service for a 91 year old saint named Herb. He was one of the nicest old men I’ve ever met. It was an honor to be asked by his family to do the service. It was also good to be back […]

Tonight we’re talking about Genesis 3 in my class. It’s hard to overestimate the centrality of Genesis 3 to the Biblical plot. How did we get where we are? Why is the world the way it is? Why the estrangement from God? Why the tension between the genders? Why do we struggle to make peace […]

Tonight I’m beginning a class on Genesis that will track with my Sunday morning preaching. I’ve found I can do a much better job on Sunday if I’m also teaching a class from the same book from which I’m preaching. Teaching a class relieves me of the temptation to go into too much technical detail […]

I’m sure there are many Christians, afraid of participating in a sacrilegious act of blasphemy, who will never see “Bruce Almighty.” That’s too bad. Having just come from the the theatre, I can only marvel at how once again Hollywood has preached a better sermon than can be heard in most churches on Sunday morning. […]

Tonight we continue our study of the Kingdom of God. In her book, Spiritual Formation in the Church and Classroom, Susanne Johnson provides twelve statements about the Kingdom of God that I find to be extremely helpful in summarizing the material we’ve covered so far. Our plan for tonight’s meeting is to discuss each of […]

In a comment posted below, Sam wrote: I have to be honest about “reloaded”. Incredible special effects…. horrible movie. Can we get any more unoriginal? The thing that drew me to the Matrix in the first place was a storyline that was entirely unheard of. Now, it’s turned into a rehashed Superman, just with a […]

I’ve been told that I was quoted in an article about the relationship between “The Matrix” and the Christian faith in today’s Tulsa World, but I haven’t seen it yet. I’m looking forward to watching “Reloaded” again. Some of the dialogue was pretty dense and I need to hear it again. The first movie was […]

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Like Sprite I’m caffeine free. Feels good. Later today I’m going to a funeral for the daughter of one of our members at Garnett. She was killed Wednesday morning in an auto accident. She was a senior in high school, set to graduate in a couple of weeks. After that, I’m coming home to a […]

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Tonight we’re continuing our study of the “Kingdom of God” as a leadership team. At the last meeting I handed out a chapter from Craig Van Gelder’s book The Essence of the Church. We’ll be discussing the chapter as well as continuing to answer the question: What can we learn about the Kingdom/Reign of God […]

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