Aug 14, 2022Member-onlyWhat Really Happens at an Online BaptismThe logistics are easy enough to figure out. A pastor likely is on one side of the camera or another and the baptizer is the same but conversely so. …5 min read5 min read
Apr 26, 2022Member-onlyObjectionable adjectives and VotingI took a swing at Andy Stanley earlier in the week here over what, on the surface, might seem like a trivial tweet. He posted an image of a statement that said “Christian is not an adjective. There are no Christi Republicans or Christian Democrats. #notinittowinit” Which again, on the…7 min read7 min read
Mar 21, 2022Member-onlyp-O-r-N LINEOnline church uses the same tactics and business model, for lack of a better word, as online porn does. And if no one has brought that up yet or pointed it out, here is a finger to point and a voice crying out in the wilderness of the interwebz. First…Church Culture7 min readChurch Culture7 min read
Mar 14, 2022Member-onlyBoasting in Christ and Him TwitterfiedSo, at the drop of a hat, a lot of tension ended up on everyone’s feeds. Circulating like the Ghost of Kyiv around the severely unskilled and underprepared invasion forces of the Red army. And the same list of characters we usually expect noise from gave us noise on demand. The…3 min read3 min read
Mar 7, 2022Member-onlyFor The Romans 13 CrowdBecause it is a crowd but you’ve likely just haven’t put that together yet. I’ve been sitting on this one for a hot minute, knowing full well that at the beginning of anything to do with Covid restrictions, that they were going to be called legal, while entirely otherwise, and that…Church5 min readChurch5 min read
Feb 28, 2022Member-onlyThe Insufficiency of Gathering OnlineTake a moment and find someone to hug, but first, go get a fishing rod. With their consent of course. The last thing we want to do in church or online is to do things against the will of others. Especially with fishing rods. But find that person and give…7 min read7 min read
Feb 21, 2022Member-onlyConsilience, Covid, and Youth MinistryDefinition of consilience: The linking together of principles from different disciplines especially when forming a comprehensive theory. These things shouldn’t be related in a meaningful way. Other than the light one shone on the other during some of the darkest days the western teenager had faced in some time. But…Theology7 min readTheology7 min read
Feb 14, 2022Member-onlyOn Arbitrary Righteousness and TruckersYou can’t say you tried to save a drowning child while standing on the side of the deep end with the intent to swim out to save them. No amount of intention saves a drowning child. It takes a body that knows how to swim. A body to dive. …Theology7 min readTheology7 min read
Feb 7, 2022Member-onlyWhen Loving Your Neighbor Backfires And BreaksThis is not a post about Covid, it’s about sex. So at one point during the last few years the pulpits of the church, the term love your neighbor was applied to masks. Now the masks in question are simple enough to understand while the loving your neighbor bit might…8 min read8 min read
Sep 29, 2020Member-onlySome godless thoughts about the Social Dilemma documentaryLike a previous post, I did on another social shockwave found here, I sat down to watch The Social Dilemma this weekend. This time with my teenager in tow. Determined to make a decent review of the film. …Social Media7 min readSocial Media7 min read