Adam McLane

Category: Christian Living

  • Ain’t nothing easy

    We live in a society of instant. Easy. And cheap.

  • Feeling Weak and Scared? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That

    Be Strong and Courageous… for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. – Deuteronomy 31:6 or you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. Deuteronomy 31:7 for you will bring the Israelites into the…

  • Just Say Thank You

    Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 I caught a lament on Rachel Blom’s Twitter feed last night, “One thing I dislike about ‘Christian culture’: you can’t really say you’re proud of an accomplishment without being accused of pride.” I share the same lament.

  • Finding an Identity in We

    I’ve spent the past couple of days thinking about identity. When I think about the great division our country finds itself in I can’t help but think of the way our society sub-divides itself into millions of identities. A Few of My Identities I identify in the youth ministry people. I identify with people with…

  • First to stand up? Or first to punk out?

    I read this yesterday on Love is an Orientation. It’s from Michael Kimpan, associate director of The Marin Foundation. It made me think all day. He shared the story of how the crowd at Wrigley turned on a fan, not because he was a Brewers fan, but because he had acne. As the crowd chanted “pizza…

  • Three Memories from Coeur D’alene

    I took my first trip to Idaho. (The list of states I’ve not been to is getting smaller and smaller.) Less than 24 hours total… it was like an appetizer for that beautiful state.  2 quick thoughts about the trip itself In my mind, Coeur D’alene was a lot closer to Seattle. But someone put…

  • The Thrill of the Landing

    15 minutes ago Ryan McRae stuck the landing. I met Ryan a couple of years ago. We made fast friends. Ryan’s problem was that he was stuck. He had a good job, one that he was good at and paid him well enough. He had a community of friends, way more of a social life…

  • Impracticality

    Impracticality

    Follow these five fast steps to spiritual growth. Living for Jesus is as easy as this acronym: I.N.H.I.M. My growth plan is Jesus 1-2-3. This stuff is the scourge of evangelicalism. It drives me batty. Any time someone tells you that the spiritual life is easy, its a formula, or that they can guarantee ____,…

  • Do the hustle

    From 1995 until 2002 I worked at BlueCross Blue Shield of Illinois. First, I ran a machine that printed ID cards for their 6 million members. Then, in 1997 at the age of 21, I was put in charge of managing 15 or so machine operators who ran the machines.

  • To Smell Like the Gospel

    Chris Baker wreaks of the gospel. Providing free cover-up tattoos to former gang members and women sexually trafficked, he’s making his life Good News.