It's not often I love a song on first hearing.Yet I stumbled across Paul Simon's "Getting Ready For Christmas Day" the other day and got hooked. Immediately. The conversation you'll hear in the background is a "sample" of a 1941 sermon delivered by Rev. J.M. Gates....
Here's a slice of what I'm doing this week:The 2011 edition looks a lot like the 2010 version. Except maybe better.Here are the Top Five Things about Spring Breakthrough:5. Students spending their spring break at the Charlotte Rescue Mission, Uptown Men's Shelter, and...
Why?Well,here are the original instructions to the children of Israel in Leviticus:16:6 “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the...
First of all, it's your genealogy. Second, in the 70s, it was a campy movie based on a Sidney Sheldon novel. More recently, it was a much-disputed paranormal documentary. This weekend, it's a new way to look at an old story. What is it? Bloodline. Perhaps the most...
Yesterday, I posted about my son Riley's "divinity school" question. After I figured out why he was asking what he was asking, I drew him a chart on a sheet of notebook paper. I figured if he was going to ask, I was going to answer. On the chart, I put seminaries and...
When I saw Talbot’s post contrasting seminaries and schools of theology/divinity schools, I had to jump on it. My name is Amy, and I am a first year Master of Divinity student at Candler School of Theology at Emory University and a proud member of Good Shepherd UMC. I...
Not long ago, my 18 year old son Riley asked me the most interesting question: "Dad, why didn't you go to a Divnity School?" That's not a typical question that anyone asks, much less an 18 year old. But after pondering it for a couple of days, I figured out why he...
Though it's been almost 16 years since DC Talk released "Jesus Freak," I've been listening to it all over again. And that recent listening shows why it remains in my view the signature Christian rock album of all time. Here are the top five things I like about it: 1....
I fall asleep most Sunday nights while replaying various aspects of Sunday morning in my mind. That replay includes things that happened in worship, key moments of the sermon, things people said to me in the lobby, and new I folks I saw and "old" folks I didn't...
First we crossed the lines.Then we changed the colors and the fonts and went outside the lines.This Sunday is the kind of thing many of us need: what it means to stay between the lines. There are some things I've been saving up to say for a long time.Here's how we...