I enjoy switching my desktop picture about every week or so. Somehow I think a desktop picture changes my mood. Probably not true, but possible. Here is my current desktop picture: You can get the desktop sized picture here. I’d love for you to leave a comment with a link to the picture on your…
Is The Church's Desire To Be Culturally Savvy Killing It?
I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had that revolve around this very subject. I often wonder about this very thing: are we trying to be so relevant and savvy that we lose the heart of the gospel and what Christ desired for his bride? This article really nailed all those kinds of questions…
Reaching Those Detached from Church
Part One // A Culture of Confession Part Two // The Problem with Salvation and Forgiving Grace We’ve been looking at confession in the context of the local church gathering, and also how our view of salvation affects our ability to experience forgiveness in confession. It is something that God has been working on in…
House Cleaning
A few months ago I moved my blog roll to a specific page instead of on the sidebar of the blog (you can find that under “links”). I just felt like the sidebar was distracting you, the reader, away from what was most important. That being the content of the posts of course. It has…
The Problem With Salvation and Forgiving Grace
Part One // A Culture of Confession As I continued to think about my post from last Thursday (A Culture of Confession) I started to think about how it all relates to our view of salvation. In our culture salvation has become another one of our quick fix schemes. We view salvation as a stamp…
Fortuitous Bouncing
This has to be the weirdest week of US Open golf that I’ve ever watched, and I’ve watched a lot of US Open golf. It is quite possible that the finish could be on Monday or Tuesday instead of the usual Sunday finish. And people say it rains a lot in Oregon… I start my…