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...
Living toward restoration

Living toward restoration

On Sunday, I preached on the final act of God’s meta-narrative: RESTORATION. This includes everything that has happened since the resurrection and will happen until the end of time. At the end of the sermon, it began to rain (we were having Church in the Park) and so...
Find our Yes

Find our Yes

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. | 2 Corinthians 1:20 I was having lunch with a friend last week, when he asked an odd question: see all of those people holding signs over...