Last night Rose and I went to the nicest restaurant I’ve ever been to. It was in the Pearl (a downtown district of Portland). I was looking through the wine menu (I don’t like wine, I was just exploring) and I saw one french bottle of wine that was $2,345. No joke. I had a [...]

Wow…I haven’t done one of these in a long, long time. Today are some songs from the new Death Cab for Cutie album. An awesome, awesome album. The songs today are called “Grapevine Fires” and “I Will Possess Your Heart” and they are great examples of a typical Death Cab song. I find it surprising [...]

Check out yesterday’s post here. It sets up everything that today’s is about. Within the comments on a similar post at Jesus Creed I found some great thoughts within the discussion of which one of the 5 views most reflects Christ’s action with culture. Matt Edwards said: At first, I was drawn to Christ the [...]

There are 5 distinct views that are commonly thought of when thinking about how Jesus dealt with culture during his time on earth. Christ against culture. Christ is opposed to the cultural expressions of this world and calls his followers to another way. Christ above culture. Christ arrives to lift the culture. Christ in paradox [...]

Meet Arnie. Arnie is from East Portland. Less than a year ago Arnie lived in a van in Portland selling and using meth. Thanks to JOIN and Sunset Pres, Arnie is trying to put his life back together. Today Arnie and I hung out all afternoon. We had a video shoot at the church with [...]

Part One- Review Part Two- Politics and the Internet Part Three- The Old Guard of Conservative Christianity Today we’re going to finish the series by getting into one of the biggest issues for Christian voters: abortion. I completely understand how sensitive this issues is and am welcome to dialoguing through the contact box and over [...]