The Divine Crash

Today was a different kind of sermon.  We are still examining where the cross is true.  Is the cross some abstract thing that is our ticket out of hell and into heaven, when we die? Or does the cross matter now, today, and in everything we do?
You can hear the entire sermon on ITunes (search for [...]

I am studying Hebrew in seminary.  This week we have translated Genesis 22:1-15.  This is the passage about the binding of Isaac.  While doing this we are looking at copies of the oldest Hebrew Manuscripts in existence.  We noticed that in the oldest manuscripts God calls to Abraham twice, but in the newer copies only calls [...]

I spent some time on Youtube.com looking for funny videos and I came across this Video and it got me thinking about God and how we respond to him. So watch the video and then read my explanation

Today was great! Today is one of those reasons why I love what I do.  We started church like normal and went through worship like normal. One of my announcements was that I would be collecting United Methodist Health Kits to take to our conference center, which would then be sent to Haiti. After the [...]

Proverbs 22:6 says
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What happens when that doesn’t happen? What happens when I as a youth worker do all in my power to make sure that by the time a youth graduates from youth group they know they way they [...]

August 21, 1999. This was when I was sitting with my pastor in his car in the church parking lot.  After spending months asking questions and figuring out for myself what it means to follow Jesus and live like Jesus and for Jesus I gave in and decided to go for it.  To give Jesus [...]

What is taught when nothing is being taught?  In those moments when nothing is actually being taught, is something being taught?  What about when something actually is actively being taught is there something else being taught?

This morning’s sermon was quite the experience.  When I started the sermon, my sermon notes did not show up on the projector and as a result some were confused so I stopped to regroup and help get the slides back up. Then I continued and all of that is on the recording, found here.
We are starting [...]