Discovering God Again
So I’m leading an online class with BeADisciple.com that works through my book Discovering The God Imagination. It has been a blast working through a postmodern approach to the Gospel. The one common thread that everyone has shared is the overwhelming tension they experience, between what they’ve been taught and what the story actually reveals. It’s hard to process something …
A Final Call For Submissions
Many of you might know that I have a publishing company called Civitas Press. We’re making a final call for submissions for our first community project. —————————————————– Greetings Civitas Family, Many of you are aware of our first community project called, The Practice of Love. So far we have over 34 submissions from 32 writers and the project is taking …
God Doesn’t Begin With Perfect
Self criticism is so destructive. I have so many friends (including myself) who are their own worst critics. We hold up an impossibly sharp standard that cuts anyone who crosses its path. Nothing less than perfection will do. So Pink just released her new video for her single exploring this emotion. The better and more explicit version is here. Pink, …
Big Love
John Michael Talbot explores the idea of Big Love, or how much bigger God is compared to our perceptions. This video captures a lot of what I have been thinking about lately. Why do you think we try to control God? I know the easy answer is sin, but I want to go deeper than that. What is it that …
Fight Club – Deliver Me
In the third in a series of posts on Fight Club, we see desire. (There is one more but it’s very graphic and in m opinion the best.) This PSA is called, “Deliver Me.” It’s the human motivation that lies underneath the surface. In “I Know You” it the narrator staring back at us in the mirror. But in this …
Fight Club – Hell Or Nothing
It’s Fight Club time again. I’m diggin’ on these old PSA trailers so I’m bringing ‘em out of hiding. This second one is called, “Hell or Nothing.” And it provides a provocative question for people. Is hell the better option than annihilation? I actually believe the narrator in the story is the everyman. He’s supposed to be you and I …
Fight Club – I Know You
I love Fight Club. It’s arguably one of the more important movies ever made (strictly from my opinion – even though I know so many people who would agree with me.) because it grapples with the human soul in one of the more provocative ways ever made. I’ve seen it probably 8-9 times and each time I notice something about …
Women In Ministry Exceptions
I love exceptions because there are always exceptions. To every rule we create there is always some situation that stretches the bounds of our thinking, and makes us wonder. (with the exception of love). And of course this week I came across a wonderful exception to rule of women in ministry. Ed Stetzer, noted researcher on church life, calls out …
Can A Child Do It
One of the things I really love about Jesus is that he focused so much on engaging what my friend Kathy would call, “little pockets of love.” He engaged people’s faith but arguably spent more time simply loving on people in their space of brokenness. Matthew 18:3 – And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become …
Question To Ponder
If we assume God is angry at us, how does God prove this isn’t true?
