Posts with the tag “2024”

With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power, Part 2Biblical Leadership Okay, there is no Part 1 with this title, but it’s the honorary title for yesterday’s post. If you haven’t read it, I’d suggest r...  Read More

I have a strange relationship with leadership. I am a pastor, a business owner, a dad, and a husband.  So, I must be a leader.  However, I have been led poorly by poor leaders, and the experience was ...  Read More

Something interesting and cool happened last week. I was at Panera, and a man came and stood very close to me, acting strange. I felt on alert and imagined him attacking me.  Then the cool thing happe...  Read More

Do things happen to you, or do you happen to things? I’ll keep this short. Of course, things happen to us all day. I woke up late, ran out of coffee, had to get labs done, and my appointment ran late....  Read More

I was describing to my son what it was like to be a competitive singer as a teenager. I grew up in Texas, but was not a football player. If you happen to know anything about Texas high school football...  Read More

To image God we conquer nature. I know some people (hardcore environmentalists) don’t like that, but it’s what we’ve been designed and tasked to do. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, af...  Read More

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.“  Francis Bacon said it first and I can’t stop thinking about it.  Nature has rules.  Follow them, and you can manipulate it. The Wright brothers commanded na...  Read More

Giving Out Love Like Biscuits at Breakfast  “We have to give out love like biscuits at breakfast,” said Gregg in a text. ”I’m stealing that,” said I. My friend was right. We do have to give out love l...  Read More

“It’s come to my attention that our church logo is on your website. This makes it appear we are associated. Please remove it as soon as possible.” This note came to me from a pastor in my town. When w...  Read More

I may be curious and open, but that doesn’t mean I’m not prone to shutting my ears to any opinion I don’t already hold. But that is not what God gave us brains for. Seeking and discerning truth is har...  Read More

We Can’t Do Anything Without ThisThe Holy Spirit’s Role in Our Lives  In the course of a day, the topic of the Holy Spirit came up in my life three times and it started to feel like God was talking to...  Read More

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,   and his greatness is unsearchable.4 One generation shall commend your works to another,   and shall declare your mighty acts.5 On the glorious splendo...  Read More

There is layer upon layer of complexity and information, even if you are not out looking for information (and you must be since you’re reading this). Programming and subconscious subterfuge occur just...  Read More

Freedom is Less, Not MoreA Powerful metaphor for life.  I am a pastor, but a long, long time ago in this same galaxy, I was once an opera singer and obtained a fair bit of education on the topic of si...  Read More

“Who wins?” My friend asked me that when I said we needed to be honest and open about an abusive false teaching in a church we’d been a part of.   His point was that Satan would win if the church call...  Read More

Growing up, I had a nickname: Christmas.This was usually flung at me by an adult over their shoulder as they walked somewhere ahead of me, frustrated they had to wait for me. I don’t know why I always...  Read More

Discipleship is Simple, but Not That Simple  When I became a Christian, discipleship was simple. This is because I was taught that being a disciple was forsaking all else and being committed to my loc...  Read More

Yesterday we tried to wrestle with self-denial—how not to do it in a way that killed us. Literally. Today—how to do it. How to deny ourselves in the right way. Because, the Bible does indeed say to co...  Read More

Years ago, I was visiting my parents, and on my way to the bathroom, I pulled a book from the shelf. It was one volume of a set of Classics of Western Literature and it turned out to be a book of essa...  Read More

What to Know: Marriage is two independent image-bearers uniting, maintaining agency but seeing themselves as one flesh in a Christ-centered relationship that reflects both Jesus and the Church and God...  Read More

It feels incredible to learn that God accepts you.Do you feel that God accepts you? You should, because He does. Receive that. And He made you in the first place.He thought you up, planned you out, an...  Read More