N.T. Wright on The Colbert Report

I’ve been meaning to post this video here since I first saw it last week.  I love The Colbert Report, under the satirical nature of the character there are often some dang good interviews – this is a case in point.  I have to admit that one of the reasons I love this interview with…

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Preparing Sermons for Fun and Prophet

I have a discipline in my life that causes a good number of my fellow Christians to shake their heads in disbelief.  I have even sometimes been accused of not allowing the Spirit to work through me – replacing the Spirit’s wisdom with my own.  These accusations annoy me, especially when I sit in on…

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Oops..

I just got a sample of a booklet entitled, “About Being Baptist” in the mail.  I read the book and thought, “Wow, I’m a pretty awful baptist.”  Or, as my friend and mentor Frank would say, “You’re NYTB (Not Your Typical Baptist).”  I pretty much knew that already (when you have friends who are Catholic…

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A lot going on…but mostly good stress

I’m looking forward to this summer.  Our Wii bowling league (it looks like we’ll have 9 teams) looks like it’s goign to work out, my wife has a lot of things going on with the youth group, my son is letting me take his training wheels off a bit so we can practice riding, I’m…

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Nice Afternoon…

With our school district going to half-days this week has played havok with my schedule, but I’ve managed to get down most of what I wanted to accomplish this week so I’m not really sweating it all the much.  Today I put down some thoughts for Sunday’s sermon and then modified a lesson from my…

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