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…
Tour of Portland in 5 Hours
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 that is as same amount of time covered in any Hawaiian tours, so I was…
A Challenge to Worship Leaders
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.…
Fortuitous Bouncing
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…
God's Word for the Local Church
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…
The Ultimate Pandemic: Swine Flu
I apologize if you are genuinely worried about swine flu. Part of me sees hundreds of schools closing and people staying home and thinks the news networks got the best of us, and then part of me thinks that is probably the best way to end this whole thing. Now that the WHO has raised…