The following is a brief confession from a series written for my Systematic Theology classes. I believe that humankind was created by God on the sixth day (Gen 1:26, 5:2, Deut 4:32), when God made Adam, the first man, from the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7), and Eve, the first woman, from Adam’s flesh […]
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Why I raise chickens: the familiar path to discipline.
On bitterly cold mornings like we had today, I ask myself, Why, again, are you raising chickens? Don’t get me wrong. I love my chickens. I love fresh eggs. But on some days, I don’t love heading out in the cold to feed and water them, gather their eggs, and tidy their coop. This morning, […]
Curriculum-dependent.
On Sunday morning, my friend stood up in front of our congregation to share a brief testimony. It was an introduction to a sermon on being salt and light. What he said blew my mind. “When I was in high school, I shared my faith. When I was in college, I shared my faith. But I […]
You need more men serving in your youth ministry.
My guess is that you have more women serving as volunteers in your youth and children’ ministries than men. You probably even have more women on staff at your church than men. I’m not mad at you; I just think that if that’s true, it’s time to man up. Generally speaking, women do make up […]
Face-time beats screen-time every time.
There’s something powerful about raw, unfiltered, unmediated face-to-face interaction that’s just better than… well… everything else. Now, I’m not totally anti-social-media, or against all television viewing or computer use. In fact, a quick survey will show that even in my house there is a screen-to-human ratio of 2.2 to 1. But the “social” interaction we […]