You Need to Join the ChoiceMob

To become a fan of the ChoiceMob and join the movement, click here.
The ChoiceMob was founded by James Pearson, an entrepreneur and visionary who I am privileged to count as a friend. The concept is simple. To quote from an e-mail he sent out a few days ago, ChoiceMob is, “A community united by common [...]

Advent Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Advent doesn’t make any sense.
My goodness, somebody had to say it, so I figured I may as well.
Advent doesn’t make any sense because it is a time of preparation and waiting. In a world where I can microwave dinner in less than five minutes and download television on my laptop almost instantly to watch while [...]

Advent: Being a People of Nonviolence in a World of War

Here are some beautiful reflections on advent from Stanley Hauerwas. I found this video to be very moving, and a wonderful beginning to my own personal preparation for the season of Advent. Enjoy.

more about “The Work of the People: Films: Recapt…“, posted with vodpod
I found this video thanks to a retweet from my former [...]

“25 Things I Hate About Facebook”

I like Facebook, for the most part, but I’ll be the first to agree that there are things worth hating about it. Here is a creative presentation of 25 such things.

That video was made by this guy.

The Destructive Power of the Morally Neutral

I’ve always had a pretty good handle on the “big” sins.
I could probably list a fairly admirable list of things that you’re “supposed” to do that I’ve done and things that you’re not “supposed” to do that I’ve never done. I don’t take much pride in that fact. If anything I’m grateful that God has [...]

Evangelism and Remebering What’s Important

For some time now my heart has been heavy because of a well-intentioned but tragically flawed nationwide evangelism project that took place this last week at colleges and universities all over the United States. I first heard about the project several weeks ago, and it was just carried out this Thursday.
What happened was a Christian evangelist wrote a 50-page “introduction” [...]

The Irony and Beauty of Thanksgiving

The following is my column from the Thanksgiving issue of the SEMI that came out today. If you’d like to see a PDF of the entire issue, click here.
Does anyone else find it a little bit ironic that thirty days of unbridled consumerism and commercialism begin the day after a holiday called “Thanksgiving”?
By the time [...]

Have nothing to do with irreverent silly myths…

So I’m in the library right now working on a sermon for my preaching class that is going to come out of 1 Timothy 4, and will center around 4:7, “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness.” I have been challenged immensely by that verse in the recent past, [...]

“We’re doing God’s work”

I laughed out loud when I first heard this quote on NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! this weekend. It’s from Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sach’s, the wildly successful investment bank that has become the subject of public ire in recent months (years?). In an interview with The London Times Blankfein,  whose firm will [...]

The online church debate hits CNN

Over the weekend CNN.com posted a story about online church services (as a brief aside, I have no idea what kind of church service is being represented in the picture with the article. A graphic like the one here is closer to what I think of when I think “Internet church”). For those who haven’t [...]