I am not sure who I identify with more here....

Jumbo sized. Super size me.Mega. Ultra. Massive. These are the sacred words of our culture.And sadly, they seem to have become the sacred words of American Evangelicalism. Can you say Willow Creek, Saddleback, Claude Osteen, Focus on the Family?There is something about being American. We seem to think that bigger, is well, better. Size matters. … Continue reading Reverend KC Wahe Installed

About 18 months ago, we lost a dear friend who was only 36. Her name was Julie, and I have written about her here, and here.She was in the college fellowship I helped to lead more that 17 years ago. There are few people that I will remember in my life as truly beautiful, in … Continue reading Tony Silvestri, Starting Over, and Sleep

When you Google the term "nerd", you get this photo.My daughter thought that my score, below, was funny....

I will admit, I have been interested in all the heat and light that seems to have developed around Barack Obama during the past several months. I want to believe there is a "new way of doing politics" as I have heard him say.Recently, Peggy Noonan wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading To Barack or Not To Barack, That is the Question

Can we get this clear? I am not typically an impulse buyer. But recently, I strayed from the straight and narrow, and picked up this amazing album while standing in line at Starbucks. What a brilliant impulse buyer I am.This album spans nearly 30 years, and is the result of the recovery of some old … Continue reading An Album and a Movie

This post is a continuation of these thoughts, and is based on this outstanding paper. What we have now, in the current church, often has all the elements of a clubhouse. As noted by Steve Hayner, the church as become something similar to this treehouse, a fun place to hang out. • God’s people began … Continue reading The Evolution of the Clubhouse

This was not an ordinary ordinary Sunday.For a number of years, it has been a tradition in our church on the first Sunday of the new year, to offer, as a part of the worship service, a time of anointing with oil.Please do not be scared. This is not hocus pocus, or Benny Hinn strangeness. … Continue reading All These People, This Cross of Oil