…wrote the following several years ago now about the hope we cling to which flies in the face of logic, hangs on through utter despair, and refuses to die in spite of the most trying of circumstances.
Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? ~Romans 8:24b, ESV
Your situation is bleak and the outlook is grim. [...]
August 22, 2009
Crazy Hope
June 8, 2009
An Excerpt from My Book Project
This snippet is taken from the chapter: “The Wrong End Zone”…
As a kid youth pastor almost a couple of decades ago now, I ran across a story that’s turned out to be pretty reminiscent of my own life experience.
On January 1, 1929, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets faced the California Golden Bears in the famed Rose Bowl. During [...]
March 30, 2009
Book Plans
It is with reservation I write today. I haven’t blogged here for several weeks now and its on purpose in case you were curious. Over the course of the last few years I have been tossing around the idea of writing a book. I have stopped and I have started again numerous times. Of late, I have been inspired again to [...]
February 19, 2009
Tough Love Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
This is how much God loved [...]
February 15, 2009
Boxed In Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
Our problem is this: we usually [...]
February 12, 2009
Hippie Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
Suppose we heard an unknown man [...]
January 30, 2009
Republican Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
…I believe that dispensing God’s [...]
January 16, 2009
Ivory Tower Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
Later when Jesus was eating supper [...]
January 12, 2009
Nice Guy Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures to draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about much too often.
Jesus, I found, bore little resemblance [...]
January 9, 2009
Out of Touch Jesus
We’ve been looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post continues the discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures in hopes to expose a whole host of myths and draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about [...]
