The Divine Crash

This week I have finals for seminary and so I didn’t preach instead I had an amazing guest speaker. However, there is no podcast or notes, but I would like to offer a few thoughts.
What are you thankful for? This question gets thrown around a lot during this time of year. What if [...]

When I was in my first year in seminary I had a professor who informed us if we could write a sermon and deliver it to the class we would automatically have an A and never need to come back to class.  The only catch was that the sermon was on Genesis 19.  At the time I [...]

Recently I have been paying more attention to the world around me, the world outside of the church, the world where people have never heard of Jesus.  While paying attention to all of these things around me I realized why some people would be turned-off to Jesus and would enjoy the world they live in.

The New Testament book of John is one of my favorite books ever.  Called a Gospel it tells the story of Jesus from birth to resurrection.  However, John is a literary genius.  He doesn’t just write to tell one story, John tells two stories at the same time.

Last night my daughter spent seven hours crying.  She woke up at 11:30 and cried until 6am.  We had no idea why.  She ate, had clean pants, and had everything she needed.  There w
as no reason for her to be crying.  I wanted more than anything for her to stop, whether it was colic, teething, [...]

September 2001, I had only just begun my freshman year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  On September 11, I had just woken up and turned on the news in time to see, live, the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.  The news reporter, Robin Meade of CNN, had just started her new job [...]

So recently I have been reading the Bible and been reading about God.  It occurs to me that God has some serious character flaws.

Accidents happen all the time.  According to my 10th grade history teacher so many inventions were created because of accidents.  Things like Bubblegum, Post-it Notes, Corn Flakes, The Slinky, and lots of other stuff were all magical inventions that happened by accident.  These were accidents that worked out for the better.

Sometimes like the pictures at [...]