America becoming less Christian (CNN)

This is a portion of a headline taken from CNN.com. (Want to read the article? Click Here) The gist is this: a recent survey has found the percentage of those that “call themselves Christian” has dropped by 11% since 1990. And while compared to the percentage drops Wall Street is racking up, this stat is [...]

A good Velvet Elvis discussion

Was doing a little googling about Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis (tracking down an idea of his to use as an illustration in a talk for tomorrow morning) and came across this post. Thought it was interesting and a good dialogue showing the different ways people interpret what Bell says in his book, including my comment [...]

2009 – A Reading Year

I only have one New Year’s resolution this year. (Which is one more than I’ve had for most of the the years previous) My resolution is to read more books.  I have a terrible habit of buying books and never opening them after I leave the store (or after they arrive via UPS from Amazon [...]

November #1 – Let’s Talk About Pottery

My wife loves news.  Her preferred source?  CNN. (Yes, I know… your eyebrows have raised and you feel the need to sing the praises of Fox News, hoping to pull us from the jaws of liberal media…. We’re OK, thanks.) Thus my Firefox homepage is CNN.com. I actually really enjoy starting from their page – [...]

August #2 “The Hard Sayings of Jesus”

This is a book I’m using to put together a series of youth talks for this fall.  I like the idea of working through some of the more confusing and perhaps difficult passages that recount Christ’s words.  Jesus said things that are difficult to wrap our minds around. But I encountered something unexpected as started [...]