Archive for November, 2006

It has become fashionable in our Americanized version of Christianity to say things like “I want to be like Jesus.” Todd Agnew recently challenged the understanding of the phrase with a song. I particularly noted this line: “But my Jesus. . . would not be welcomed in my church. The blood and dirt [...]

I have to tell my friends who frequent my little corner of blogdom about what has become my favorite blog. Just go to nathanfinn.blogspot.com. Now there are others I read with various levels of agreement, encouragement, perplexity, or even disagreement. But this is my favorite.
Nathan is a brilliant PhD student at SEBTS and [...]

I realize blogs sometimes get a little cheesy when they become obsessed with sharing personal information very few people give a rip about outside the closest friends of the blog’s host. I also realize I am one who falls victim of that too. But after all it is my blog lol.
So in the spirit [...]

This Tuesday marks my 25th wedding anniversary with my lovely and godly bride Michelle. I may write more about that on the day, but I am glad that on that day as we reflect on so many wonderful years of ministry together I am speaking in chapel at Southeastern. Michelle has always loved [...]

That is my Hannah on the left with Missy and rachel. they just finished a great season–winning record, lots of fun, and they beat the one team these 3 have never beaten from grades 6-8. What fun Michelle and I had cheering for the mighty knights!

Today I will do something I rarely do although I am a minister. I am conducting a funeral for a friend. This friend is my age, 47, taken entirely too quickly. He leaves behind a wife, a son who is a senior in high school with my son, and a daughter just [...]

I just returned from a wonderful weekend of ministry near Hilton Head, SC. I loaded up a trailor with gear, these seven wonderful students, and drove (well they did most of the driving) 5.5 hours to the church. We had an amazing time together. I so love students! Other than my [...]

If we could simply recover the passion, the power, and the practice of the church in Acts we just might reach America as effectively as the early church reached the Empire. How did they do it? In a book every church leader simply must read, Michael Green in Evangelism in the Early Church observed [...]

We are on a much appreciated break this week. Whew. So I have just a little while to think and reflect. Here are a few random thoughts:
On our Christian subculture: I suppose it is inevitable to have one, but have we ever had such a developed and simultaneously detached-from-the-rest-of-culture (how’s that for poetic license) [...]