Organic or Universal Expression of Faith

There is a theme in a couple of blogs I have been reading lately that has given me something to chew on.  Pastor Sherill is starting a sermon series on the Apostle’s Creed.  This creed is said in some churches throughout the world as a corporate reminder of the story we believe, the God we [...]

Helping the Homeless in Huntsville

The Youth at our church participated in Missions Week all last week.  Missions week is a week of where the youth spend the night together (guys in the gym, girls on the youth hall) and during the day participate in local mission opportunities in our community.  Tony (youth minister) invited one of his close friends, [...]

Christian Response to War

Duncan posed a good question on his blog about the role of Christians living in a nation at war.  Great question.  Over the past few year I have heard many different people wrestle with this topic.  Here is my response to Duncan’s questions.
 
A week ago I read a passage in Jim Wallis’s new book on [...]

Eight Questions

I am leading Sunday School tomorrow morning.  We have an open day before we start our study of the book of Romans next week.  We usually have around thirty young adults attend each week, so I am going to break the group into eight small groups of four to five people and give them each [...]

Ichthus 2008

I drove to Wilmore, Kentucky Thursday afternoon to meet the youth group (and my wife) at Ichthus.  Ichthus is a Christian music festival that has been hosted by Asbury College since 1970.  There are about 20,000 people attending the event this year.  Like many other large music festivals, you sleep in tent city at night [...]

The Sciences

I just found a web site that has all of the back issues of a magazine I really enjoyed in graduate school.  The Sciences is a magazine that looked (yes, past tense) at science from a cultural context.  Unfortunately, the magazine went out of print in 2001.  Over the three years I subscribed, I would devour [...]

Interesting Topics

Some of the interesting conversations and sites from this past week.
 

Conversation with Bennett about the role of Baptism during our bike ride the other morning.  Is baptism required for one to become a Christian, or is it just an outward and visible sign or action to the rest of the community declaring our faith in [...]

Busy Times

I’ve been very busy this past week with work and filling out a profile packet for Young Professional of the Year.  At work, I am managing numerous programs, and they all had major events in the same week (I hate it when that happens).  I am excited just to be nominated for YPOY in Huntsville. [...]

Interesting Topic

My friend Duncan is exploring the topic of women and leadership positions in the church on his blog.  This is an interesting topic that has come up in a few different conversations over the past three weeks.  Opinions on this subject are all over the place - some stress the writings of Paul (2 Timothy [...]