The buzz you're hearing in the Methodist world is an unprecedented convergence of events, all of which center on the conjoined issues of clergy covenant and same-sex marriage.The rush includes a retired seminary dean & president in New...
I've been spending my evenings this week with several hundred kids and volunteers as we together go through Turn It Up, our 2013 Vacation Bible School.Er -- Experience.And it's been an experience.There's music:Crafts:Activities for pre-schoolers:And, of course, small...
Last week I gave five movies I haven't seen but probably should.So today, it's the reverse.Movies that I paid to see or to rent ... and realized pretty quickly that I shouldn't have. Some I left, others I took out of the VCR/DVD player, while others I...
I have long loved to preach on what many in the church call "end times."Why?Two primary reasons: 1) it is a great chance to correct what I perceive to be false teaching on the subject . . . namely, the Rapture-based eschatology made popular by the Left Behind...
LeBron is playing in the NBA Finals, right?But is the Second Coming anything more than a marketing campaign by our friends at Nike?Will their be a swoosh?Or something bigger and bolder than that; something on the order of the Bang that got it all started in the first...
When I am walking in the flesh -- meaning, not rigorously & consistently connected to the Holy Spirit -- I can fall into a trap.The trap that says all my thoughts needs to be verbalized.As if I'll lose it if I don't say it.Sarcastic thoughts.Condescending...
This story appeared in the June version of the Asbury Seminary Alumni e-magazine: Asbury ConnectionSend to Kindleby Talbot Davis, MDiv, 1990In September of 1987, Talbot Davis and Brent Burdick both arrived on the campus of Asbury Seminary. Talbot came from New...
If you follow this blog at all, you know that music plays a larger role in my life than film.Now: I like movies. Julie and I go to them on some occasions and even do this newfangled Pay-Per-View on others.Yet the list of movies I haven't seen is maybe more, um,...
Julie and I spent this past weekend in Princeton, New Jersey, celebrating her 30th college reunion.We made the same trip in 2008 when we celebrated her 25th, and at that time I posted some thoughts here.We met on that college campus, got married in that college...
Easter in June?Actually, every Sunday is a celebration of resurrection.This Sunday, we'll dig deep into resurrection's truth and its power.And as we dig deep, we'll be raised high.Because what happened to Jesus and his body will one day happen to us and our bodies.The...