A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a presentation our staff heard from Asbury Seminary professor Ben Witherington. And then the day after that presentation, Witherington's 32-year-old daughter died of a pulmonary embolism.Dr. Witherington has had a couple of...
Joe Paterno's death this past Sunday got me thinking about coaches and coaching (which is probably better than a lot of the other things you could think about JoePa, Penn State, and football culture over the last couple of months).In my time as a tennis player, I had...
I have recently posted on my fondness for Paul Simon's music.So my eyebrows got raised when I saw this in Saturday's Charlotte Observer:Paul Simon's meandering spiritual journeyBy Kim LawtonReligion & Ethics NewsWeeklyBy Kim Lawton Posted: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012Paul...
So is this what it looked like when the waters divided on the Red Sea?Is this how Moses did it?And maybe more to the point, exactly where did the children of Israel think they were going once they got to the other side?As we head towards Week Three of Delivered, those...
The other night I received a series of text messages from my 19 year old son Riley, a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill.Riley: What verses dominate Calvinism? (Meaning, what verses best answer or refute Calvinism.)Dad: I Timothy 2:3-4 and 2 Peter 3:9Riley: And how do you...
In honor of this year's Australian Open, I'm devoting this week's Top Five list to tennis, the sport that will not let me go.And to books, the pastime that sometimes consumes me.Books about tennis have ranged from the avant garde -- The Inner Game Of Tennis by Timothy...
One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses:The Spiritual By-PassWhat is that? It's the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE...
Since the Delivered series is all about the book of Exodus, we wanted to give the entire church family a way to experience Moses' story to a greater extent than is possible on Sunday mornings.So: movie night.My first idea was the Charlton Heston classic, The Ten...
On occasion, I give phone calls to people I haven't seen around church in awhile.My responses to their reponses have me a bit conflicted.If they respond to my "hey, I've missed seeing you and want to make sure everything is OK" with "oh, sorry, I've just gotten out of...
Yesterday, a number of us from staff drove up to Myers Park United Methodist Church to hear a presentation by Ben Witherington, a Professor of New Testament at Asbury Seminary.Dr. Witherington is the most widely published and well known member of the Asbury faculty....