Category: Christian Living

  • Worship With Us

    To follow-up on my post about the impact of pronouns in worship, this post re-writes a few popular worship songs swapping out I, me, mine for we, us, and ours.

  • Downton Abbey as a Metaphor for Church Life

    Kristen and I are late-comers to the Downton Abbey craze. Other than the season 3 finale we’re all caught up. (Don’t spoil that last episode for us, we’ll probably watch it tonight.) Speaking of spoilers this post won’t have any. Instead, this post will talk about things in general ways.  If I were going to…

  • Are Pronouns Making Our Worship Lonely?

    I’m not a worship leader. My butt is too big for skinny jeans. My high school piano teacher told me to quit trying to learn. And no one would knowingly hand me a microphone to sing into. That means that at least once per week I’m lead in worship. And that means that while the worship leaders…

  • Good News for the Brokenhearted this Valentine’s Day

    Ah Valentine’s Day. It’s a day of romance for some and a day of dread for others. If you are the latter, Jesus offers you Good News. (Actually, for both!)

  • The Necessity of Speaking the Unpopular Truth

    I wrote this phrase down in my notebook a few months ago and have been looking back at it for a while. I can’t escape it. It both empowers me and annoys me. Sure, there’s power in speaking the truth. But Death has a way of clenching its fist on people’s lives, unwilling to let…

  • What Posture Do You Take?

    The posture a writer takes impacts the perspective of the reader. Unfortunately, without proper perspective on the writer, the authors impact can outweigh reality.

  • Jesus, the Counter-Culture Rebel with a Cause

    Sometimes Jesus’ words shock me because they are so offensive to my own culture. Jesus has a lot to say to us today. His words still indict and call us to a new, counter-cultural way of living. These statements are a powerful reminder that Jesus, fully God and fully man, could have easily conquered the world.…

  • Being driven vs. being chill

    You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ~ Charles Spurgeon Here’s something I wrestle with. Do I let my holy dissatisfaction with the status quo rule or do…

  • The Proximity Gospel

    One place the Good News needs to prevail is helping to reshape our neighborhoods.  We, as a culture, obey the rule of affinity in our lives. Who we gather with, who we have as friends, where we go to worship… our entire place in this world is governed by affinity. We do stuff we like.…

  • Jesus Calls Us to Action, Sunday Morning is a Call to Passive

    My Observation From 1994 to 2008 my life revolved around the platform. I was either preparing for being in full-time vocational ministry or in it. God had called me to teach and as a result I felt fulfilled in that mission when I stood on the platform teaching. But in 2008, all of that changed…