I wish people would quit with the green clothes. I just don’t own anything I can wear on St. Patrick’s Day, and I’m not going to go out and buy a shirt just so I can wear it once a year. Green clashes with my eyes. March 17 has become a day to celebrate the […]
The recent airing of the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus has created quite a stir. The show, which aired on the Discovery Channel drew over 4 million viewers, and the book based on the program, Jesus Family Tomb, skyrocketed to sixth on the New York Times Bestseller List. This documentary asserts that an ossuary […]
Dangerous Movies I saw the Astronaut Farmer this week (about a C+ on the Patented Lancaster Scale), and it got me to thinking, Why do we go to the movies in the first place? Aren’t these the kinds of experiences we should be having in church? Let’s admit it right now. We can never make […]
Daylight Savings time and the Mayberry Cafe
All the hubbub about Daylight Savings Time starting this week reminded me of one of the, shall I say, less than memorable moments in my work with teenagers (for those who don’t know it, I was a youth pastor for a long time). As a youth pastor, I wanted trips to be memorable, so when […]
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
One of the things I hope to do in my blog is to point people to some resources that challenge me. So here is the first entry of that type. Too often, we lose sight that we are part of the larger story of God and His work in church history. I spent most of […]