I am part of a team of church planters that is headed to Denver to start a church in 2011. Our core group of eight has been gathering weekly to discuss what we see as foundational in the Scripture regarding ecclesiology. Last week we went through what it meant to be gospel-centered or gospel-driven. Not [...]
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Gospel-Centered Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged church planting, Gospel centered on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like Sharpened Knives Through Chicken McNuggets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cake, fashion nugget, stickshifts and safetybelts, The distance music video on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m think it’s cool when people really know their junk about music and can play an instrument really well. Case in point is my friend Daniel Miles who plays every instrument under the sun and he’s really awesome. However, I’m not really writing to talk about my friends and their musical ability but a musical [...]
Vacancy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jesus, the cross on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got the itch again to blog and the itch to not study Hebrew any more tonight so after about a three month hiatus I should be pregnant with many months worth of blogging materiel. Well, here goes…
So a couple of weeks ago I was thinking about Jesus and the gospel and the lost and [...]
The Gospel and Morality
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gospel, morality, virtue on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think Christians love morality and confuse it for the Gospel. I think we give morality a share on the throne of our hearts as if Jesus is pleased to parcel out his kingship to another. Morality, if it stands alone or is made primary in life becomes antithetical to the Gospel. In order to [...]
One for One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged one for one, toms shoes on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone needs to go visit the website tomsshoes.com. Just check out this video and make this the next pair of shoes you buy.
Couch Surfing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged couch surfing, traveling on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So my roommate Andy is going to travel out west for thirty days by motorcycle and he discovered a website called couchsurfers.com. It’s a community of world wide travelers who open their homes/couches to those who need a place to crash for the night. Their tag line is “participating in creating a better world one [...]
Rocks and Such
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love to climb and this weekend me and some friends went to Moores wall outside of Winston Salem. Bright sun and just warm enough– couldn’t ask for a better day. There’s a lot of freedom for me in climbing. Just somethin about being up there on a face where you can look down and [...]
The Easter Miracle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged easter, peeps, resurrection on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This coming Sunday Christians around the world will gather for corporate worship to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. However, I want to recognize a more ridiculous Easter tradition. Here’s to the peep. Some love ‘em and some hate ‘em. I personally align myself with the latter. Here are your peeps fast facts.
It takes 6 minutes [...]
Creed of The Modern Thinker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Creed of The Modern Thinker, Ravi Zacharias, Steve Turner on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somedays while I paint I listen to books on cd, others its just music and others I’ll listen to guys like Matt Chandler, Mark Driscoll, Ravi Zacharias etc… Today was a podcasting day and I heard Ravi qoute a British journalist by the name of Steve Turner. Sarcastic and to the point, I thought this [...]
Out to make a buck
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged state fair, worlds largest horse, worlds smallest woman on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Jen is always telling me that I am constantly coming up with schemes…well, here’s a new one for ya that will definitely never come to fruition. While in Mexico City I think I was quite possibly the tallest man there. I have never seen as much rubber necking as when I was walking [...]
