On facebook, I’ve been chronicling my ups and downs – mostly downs – in dealing with my former landlady here in Redwood City. From our arrival six months ago, she has been – in our opinions – intrusive, abusive, and over-bearing, to say the least. At first she stopped by the house every day to [...]
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As A Witness
Posted in Bible, family, grace, leadership, life, ministry, preaching, speech acts on August 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Celebrity and Humanity
Posted in authentically black, family, fatherhood, grace, life, race relations, ranting, speech acts on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For some reason, I feel compelled to write a few words about celebrity and humanity with Michael Jackson’s memorial hanging as the backdrop. It should be said at the outset that I have always been a Michael Jackson fan, though a conflicted one.
If MJ were still alive and had a CD coming out next week, [...]
The Real Thing (a reflection on “Lars and the Real Girl”)
Posted in Bible, equality, family, grace, life, movies on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night I began preparing for my summer preaching series, “Summer Blockbuster.” I’m going to take a look at movies that subversively — even to the authors and producers — tell the gospel in beautiful and compelling ways. One of those movies will certainly be “Lars and the Real Girl.”
Lars… is about a quirky young [...]
Not Preaching
Posted in Bible, Missional Church, church, grace, missional, preaching on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the Senior Minister for a church, you might find it odd for me to say this: There are times when I HATE preaching. I don’t mean the craft or the art, but rather having to say anything at all.
What I mean is this: There are times when the words of scripture are so powerful [...]
Lord, Have Mercy
Posted in Bible, C.S. Lewis, books, church, grace, history, prayer, preaching, speaking, speech acts, spiritual formation, words on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I’ve mentioned, I’m teaching a class on spiritual formation and spiritual disciplines. The class is going well, but as is the case whenever a group of people explore spiritual formation, there are points that stretch all of us. The stretching is always both painful and necessary. After all, theses practices are designed to aid [...]
The List
Posted in advocacy, books, change, church, grace, humility, life, theology on January 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
It’s official. I”m out!!
The Christian Chronicle (a paper to which I contributed last month) is running an article noting that my new congregation, Redwood Church, has been omitted from the 2009 edition of The Churches of Christ in the Unites States.
The reason: Redwood (along with Farmer’s Branch and Richland Hills) has at least one instrumental [...]
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