After worship today Central Baptist Church was invited to a barbecue by our Brazilian brothers and sisters. The food was excellent, but the friendship more-so. We talked, ate too much, and some of us even played volleyball 1. I’ll be extremely sore tomorrow, but it was worth it. Several folks from the Brazilian congregation remarked…
Tag: Christianity
Les Misérables
Yesterday my daughter auditioned for a local Summer production of Les Misérables. She’s going for Madame Thénardier, partly because she’ll get to swear on stage 1. In preparation for her audition we rented the recent movie version of the musical. It’s visually stunning, and Anne Hathaway absolutely nails Fantine, but overall I didn’t care for…
Whatever
I missed participating in the theotek podcast last night, things are a little hectic around these parts and it just didn’t work out. Today I tuned in 1 to see what I missed and, thanks to the diagramming work of Kevin Purcell, I literally saw something. Kevin was using Philippians 4:8-9 as an example, and…
Effective Preaching?
Here’s a question I’ve often pondered. Is preaching actually effective? We live in a world literally bombarded with information. Tools like Twitter, Instagram, texts, news alerts, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Snapchat, and Slack shove information at these computers we carry around in our pockets. Many of us are information weary – and then we tell people…
A Momentous Evening
I have to admit I have not been completely pumped up for this Holy Week. Don’t misunderstand. I adore this time of walking with Jesus, but the sum of life beyond Holy Week has been sapping my energy. I was really looking forward to Easter simply because my vacation begins after the benediction. It’s not…
Tradition
Jaroslav Pelikan, an excellent Christian scholar and author of the five-volume series The Christian Tradition once wrote the following, Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Many people who are acquainted with me will often mistake me for a radical believer. They’ll hear my critiques of…
