The Dilemma of the Church Incongruity From the earliest days of Jesus’ ministry with them, the disciples faced a difficult dilemma. Borne largely out of the incongruity between what they thought the Messiah was supposed to do and what Jesus was actually doing, they constantly and repeatedly were …
No, Sunday Worship is Not the Mark of the Beast
Someone recently drew my attention to a series of videos on Amazon Prime going by the title, "The Days of Noah." I hate to draw attention to videos that are filled with misinformation, but I fear that someone else might come across them and so, I'm posting this here in case that someone is …
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Introduction
Before getting into the main content of my book, I want to take some time to share an introduction of sorts, a brief description of the journey I have taken over the past 16 years or so. Introduction In 2006, when Jennifer and I moved to Lafayette to start a church, we had a number of …
The “Good Morning Church” Book
edit: I have removed the chapters from my blog for the moment because I'm submitting the book to publishers and agents at the moment. For a number of years now, I have been on a spiritual and emotional journey of learning what I was never taught about racism by building personal relationships …
Next Steps for the Church in America
Today in the New York Times, David Brooks published an opinion piece about the Evangelicals who are trying to save evangelicalism from itself. Evangelical is a word that I used to fully embrace for myself because I thought it was a word that described a commitment to the gospel, a commitment to the …