Twitter and the blogosphere linked to it seem to erupt afresh every week with some new controversy.  Last week, it was so–called “evangelicals” who blew up the digital landscape over what the esteemed Eugene Peterson said, or didn’t say, in an interview originally scheduled for different purposes.  I texted a friend last Thursday that “there’s…

This past Sunday afternoon, AP published an article from Los Angeles that started with these two paragraphs … “Clayton Kershaw tossed a six–hitter to become the majors’ first 14–game winner, Justin Turner homered twice, and the NL West–leading Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Kansas City Royals 5–2 to complete their major league–best 10th sweep and sixth straight victory.  The streaking Dodgers head…

This very brief post invites you to join in a week–long challenge. Convert your auto’s interior to a “Chapel on Wheels” … a space for listening to God. For the next seven days (after you start), whenever you are driving alone in your car, truck, van or motorcycle, simply turn off the radio, CD, iPod,…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This second sentence of the Declaration of Independence (click for full text) is easily the most recognizable and oft–quoted. Today we…

The Christian vocal group “Casting Crowns” recent hit song “Thrive” includes these lyrics: Fill our hearts and flood our souls With one desire Just to know You and to make You known ~ ~ ~ We know we were made for so much more Than ordinary lives It’s time for us to more than just…

“Ordinary Time” is a new concept for me … unfortunately.  As I wrote in an earlier post … What happens when an Evangelical practices Lent?  …  I was raised as a “Protestant – Evangelical – Fundamentalist” … so all I ever heard about liturgical holidays were that they were a little too “Roman Catholic” and…

Happy “Father’s Day”! The first Father’s Day may have been celebrated in the state of Washington on June 19, 1910.  A woman named Sonora Smart Dodd thought of honoring and celebrating her father while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in a church service a year earlier.  She felt that mothers were getting all the…

Are you planning to celebrate the Trinity this Sunday?  How will your church celebrate what many have believed throughout the history of Christendom to be “the most significant day on the Church Calendar”?  Does your church even celebrate events from the historical, liturgical “Church Calendar”? … or is your church calendar simply an online depository…

Is the Holy Spirit the “Forgotten God” in your life?  Francis Chan asks that probing question in a book by that same title.  He continues with a corollary question: When was the last time you undeniably saw the Holy Spirit at work in or around you? These are logical questions to ask the day after…

The “Feast of Weeks” … or Shavuot as the Hebrews called it … was traditionally celebrated 50 days after Passover, commemorating God’s gift of the Law … Torah … to hundreds of thousands of Israelites encamped at the base of Mt. Sinai.  This gift signaled to a people on the run from Egyptian captivity that…