The work of shepherding

The work of shepherding

This is the third post in a series on responding to the cultural moment. The first post oulined the issue and looked at what we are doing when we gather on Sundays. The second post was looking at the role of preaching in this. Today we will look at the work of...
Some thoughts on preaching

Some thoughts on preaching

Yesterday, I started a blog series that came from a talk I did at our church meeting. This is was to give background on how we interacted with current events at our Sunday service. What are we doing when we are preaching? The act of preaching is to deliver the Word of...
Responding to the moment

Responding to the moment

We had a church family meeting after second service on Sunday. Before we celebrated God’s blessings on us and installed nine new member families, I spoke on how our church deals with major events in the culture around us. For those who could not be there, I felt...
Tech isn’t neutral

Tech isn’t neutral

Technology creates its own imperatives, and, at the same time, creates a wide-­ranging social system to reinforce its ­imperatives. | Neil Postman, Technopoly I am not a Luddite, though I have been accused of it. But no one would mistake me for being an early adopter,...
Noah gets hammered

Noah gets hammered

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. | Genesis 9:20–22  Over the last...