The Divine Crash

So, once again this year we did the family thing and went to go buy a christmas tree. Being new in town we went to a tree farm we have never been to before.  We bought a tree that looked nice and came home. After getting it and putting it up we noticed that the [...]

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Psalm 118:22-23 “The stone rejected by the builders is now the main foundation stone! This has happened because of the Lord; it is astounding in our sight.”
Matthew 21:42 [...]

For some reason I have ended up in conversations with people about what makes a sermon great and what makes them sink like a brick. Giving a sermon is very much like giving birth. It takes months of planning, building, creating, because deep inside of you is this thing that is alive and growing and [...]

I spent some time reading this book.  I took my time so that I could properly digest what Peter Rollins was saying.  Well, I just finished it and I am left with two contradicting and yet complimentary thoughts.  I have read everything Rollins has written and this is by far his best work.

Wow! An amazing [...]

So I had a sermon all planned out and ready to go that I had been working on for several weeks.  Then I woke up this morning and came up with something else.  I woke up and decided that my sermon was not going to work.  I had something else that I had to give…what [...]

Dear Jesus, as advent approaches let us be the ones who breath fresh air and hear a fresh sound.  May we know that you provide fresh air for us and a fresh sound that gives us grace.  - Amen

On Wednesday night, I was invited to speak at the University of Pittsburgh’s Campus Crusade for Christ. It was a good time and it was nice to have a teaching that was a little more relaxed.  I had recorded it but my recorder decided to only record 35 minutes of dead air. Not sure why, [...]