Between the Trees

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; [...]

I have recently fallen deeply in love with the Heidelberg Catechism. While I have been familiar with it for years, and read it long ago, I have recently been re-reading and contemplating it, to great reward. The beauty of it is its simplicity. It reads easily, yet still with profoundly biblical answers. The sort of [...]

Most of you reading this know the debt I owe to Dr. Francis Schaeffer and L’Abri Fellowship. Perhaps some day I’ll write a blog about it, that’ll have to be it’s own writing though, I don’t have the time for it now. But if you want to get a sense of what it is about [...]

So I’ve spent the past 10 minutes trying to start a post and I’m realizing my mind is racing in 15 different directions right now, here are a few topics I want to blog about in the near future:
The Invisible Children documentary and project
A theology of the oppressed (a term phrased by Rob Bell who [...]

When I was a child in Sunday School, my teachers taught me that the Church is not just a building or a place we go on Sunday mornings, it is the people. Any self-respecting evangelical knows that this is the right answer. However, sadly, I am beginning to think both I and almost every Christian [...]

Seriously, I can’t think of a better example of what the Proverbs say about a gentle word turning away wrath. Please go read it, for a little context, it’s written by a man named Curtis Allen, a member of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersberg, MD. For reference, Joshua Harris (one of my favorite pastors) is [...]

Kind of a fun little quiz: I think I scored as I did b/c I’m so strong on social action and a holistic view of the gospel and salvation… Although neither of those are antithetical to reformed theology, they seem to occupy a larger space in emergent theology. I thought it was surprisingly accurate though… [...]

I’ve added a comment to his sharing a story about a godly man God has used to encourage me, and it’d be really cool if others would share their stories. It’d be a great encouragement to all of us to see how God is making himself known through the lives of his followers, so if [...]

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [...]

So if you didn’t know this about me already, it’s probably time for me to tell you: I like books… a lot. To borrow from Mark Driscoll, “I like big books and I cannot lie.” If you get a chance listen to Mark’s first sermon on spiritual gifts and skip to about the one hour [...]