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Keep’n Up with the Jones’ vs. Keeping satisfied with Jesus
Read more: Keep’n Up with the Jones’ vs. Keeping satisfied with JesusNext week begins a new opportunity for me. After several months of networking new connections, broadcasting my interest, data mining essential research, the Lord has truly provided an opportunity for advancement in my work that is beyond what I could have even crafted for myself. Looking forward to this opportunity, I can’t help but think…
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Keeping Focus on Family through Self-Indulgent Summer
Read more: Keeping Focus on Family through Self-Indulgent SummerWhatever family friendly sit-com you grow up watching- whether the I Love Lucy, Full House, or Home Improvement, the source of the laughs and the heart-tugs are the same- family can be rough sometimes. We can all see the elements of dysfunction, and fortunately, all share a laugh of emphathy when we see it acted out before…
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Reflections on the Value of Jewish Studies
Read more: Reflections on the Value of Jewish StudiesA few months ago, a family member brought a particular newspaper article to my attention. The title “New Testament gets a new look by Jews.” As someone who is very interested in not only the study of the Old Testament, but also the Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament, and the Christian faith, this seemed…
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Choosing to Purr in the Stress of a Dog-Eat-Dog World”
Read more: Choosing to Purr in the Stress of a Dog-Eat-Dog World”Life offers us a lot to worry about. To jump to the chase, I can unload a couple of examples from my own past 2-3 weeks: -Pressing through the late nights (1-2 AM nights) finishing study preparation for finals, completing final projects, and otherwise, officially concluding the semester with performance quality that I not only…
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Pondering Partisanship and Patriotism
Read more: Pondering Partisanship and PatriotismAs 2012 continues, so does the grind of the election year, and certainly no one is more excited for November 6th than the candidates themselves. I can’t imagine the drain and the grueling stress this brings for the candidates). This atmosphere, combined with the patriotism associated with Memorial Day this weekend, had me pondering the sort of…
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Homosexuality and the Church: The Symptom of a Larger Problem?
Read more: Homosexuality and the Church: The Symptom of a Larger Problem?For those who haven’t noticed, traffic here at the two cities has taken a considerable focus on sincerely contributing to the discussion of homosexuality. Always a hot topic, and pinging especially large on our reader’s radar in light of President Obama’s Statement on the matter and the recent publication of the Biola Underground, we at T2C…
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The Empty Ecstasy of Entertainment Escapism
Read more: The Empty Ecstasy of Entertainment EscapismLast weekend, numerous people throughout the country collectively invested $200.3 M into 2 hours and 23 minutes of their time. This investment was the purchase of a movie ticket to escape the world of reality to play in the super-hero fantasy world of The Avengers. I’ll confess: I tossed a few bucks into the pot…
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Paul, the Gladiator Apostle?
Read more: Paul, the Gladiator Apostle?As fun as flannel-gram Bible stories were, I always found it frustrating (especially when trying to teach with them) that so often, you are short the people and the objects necessary to tell the entire story. Sometimes you just don’t have enough Galilean common folk to make two crowds, or enough leapers or demonized people…
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The Strength of Storying…
Read more: The Strength of Storying…Ministry isn’t easy. Those who serve, whether as pastors of churches, or who minister in other ways, can certainly resonate with that fact. And, it’s tough in different ways for different people. Although I’ve come to grow substantially in this area, for years, vulnerability was one of my most difficult hurdles. To share with another……
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For Freedom Christ has Set us Free…
Read more: For Freedom Christ has Set us Free…לכן אמר לבני־ישׂראל אני יהוה והוצאתי אתכם מתחת סבלת מצרים והצלתי אתכם מעבדתם וגאלתי אתכם בזרוע נטויה ובשׁפטים ג (Exodus 6:6) On the night on which He was betrayed, while their bold and often mystifying rabbi lead them in a tradition that they have practiced all their lives… a tradition which probably invoked the…