I hate stereotypes. The reason I kept big snakes in my office at the seminary for about eight years was to break the stereotype that I heard as a young minister that any well educated minister who was as boring as watching paint dry would make a good teacher at the seminary. The […]
‘Cause I know there’s got to be another level
Somewhere closer to the other side
And I’m feeling like it’s now or never
Can I break the spell of the typical
If you recognize this chorus then you get the heading to this post. It is from the song “Typical” by Mute Math, a group my son and other […]
Once upon a time, long ago, one could be a poet, an artist, and a preacher of the Word. You know, like Luther’s day. He was a theologian and not a bad song writer (read the words to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God lately?). Isaac Watts, John and Charles Wesley, and many others both […]
I love being a Southern Baptist. As the saying goes, I am Southern Baptist born and Southern Baptist bred, and when I die I’ll be Southern Baptist dead. But God got to me before the Baptists J. Jesus changed my life as a young man, and I have still never recovered. But […]
