In light of my post last week on swine flu, the quickly growing pandemic has been on my mind a lot. After some research, I’ve found that this is the number one way to get swine flu: As I was looking at this picture, it reminded me of another famous picture. It has to be [...]

On Saturday my sister and her good friend were up from San Diego and Long Beach. I had promised a tour of Portland to all the best places. We had 5 hours to get the whole “tour of Portland” in, so I was definitely crunched for time. Here was our agenda. Rose and I live [...]

How many times have you heard ‘worship is not just singing’? If you are anything like me, you have heard that phrase a lot. And it is absolutely spot on. Singing is merely an expression of the worship we desire to give God. Yet I think the American church is communicating a very different message. [...]

My sister and her friend are up from San Diego and Long Beach today. Rose and I are going to show them the town (Portland) this afternoon. Too bad it rained overnight. They’ll have to see what Portland is really like…wet. Blogs Remember my “5 reasons seminary is relevant” post. Matt Cleaver was inspired by [...]

The book of Revelation is written to 7 local churches that existed in the late first century. It was likely written by John, but we don’t need to argue about that right now. Towards the beginning of the letter John, in the apocalyptic writing style, speaks about God’s praise and condemnation for those churches. Eugene [...]