Progress To A Transformed Christian Life
My daughters like to watch the TV show, "America's Next Top Model." This is a reality show where aspiring models compete to be the top pick and get a modeling contract. Throughout the show they are coached and guided by experts, other models, and people who are experienced in the industry. My daughters have started... Continue Reading →
I thought 2017 was a tough year for me and many of the people I work with but 2018 has already been marked by one report of bad news after another. I have that same sinking, weak, and impotent feeling I had last summer when my Dad died. My knees seem to constantly be in... Continue Reading →
Karl Rahner has said that "the Christian of the future will be a mystic or he won't exist at all." All of my Christian conservative readers are probably getting nervous right now after reading that quote. The fear is, among some people, is that Christians must hold tightly to rationality and reason lest they become... Continue Reading →
I am indebted to the mentors, the muses, and the motivations I gained this past year from a wide range of areas. Each item is something that I was exposed to in 2017 that had a high impact on me changing and maybe even growing up. Music Band of Horses - Last January was so... Continue Reading →
This year has been the hardest and most meaningful year of my life. So many things, good and bad happened this year. I couldn't sum up the year in a few sentences, but my posts provide a diary of sorts to the ups and downs and the goodness of God. Spiritual Discovery If you are... Continue Reading →
My stomach hurt, my neck was constantly stiff, I was exhausted all the time. The weight of the world, at least my world, was on my shoulders. I was trying to finish Grad School, my job kept me occupied nights, weekends, and holidays, and my wife and I had a small child that was just... Continue Reading →
When I was in college, I used to work at a facility for the mentally handicapped. I often worked on the weekends and one of my favorite duties was taking a group of the residents to church. It was a small Baptist church where our little gaggle of adults almost made up a third of... Continue Reading →
I went to a small Baptist college in a small town in central Texas. Down the street from my college was a Presbyterian church. I had recently been reading a lot of Frederick Buechner and Thomas Merton and was fascinated by their spiritual journeys. Both of them came to conversion in their early to mid-twenties... Continue Reading →
The problem with celebrity pastors is that whether they chased celebrity to begin with or it found them, maintaining celebrity requires feeding a public that no matter what they say, probably aren't supremely interested in the integrity of the Gospel. If you are a celebrity pastor and your next steps are pushing away from Christ,... Continue Reading →
You are in a group or at a public event and someone besides yourself is praying. What do you do? Do you just sit there and hope it doesn't go too long? Do you nod your head and make sounds of agreement? Do you try to hang onto every word and pretend that the words... Continue Reading →
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