The Problem of Evil

I spent most of the day today relaxing with my dad and recovering from a poker game that lasted 8 hours ending at 5:00a.m.  We watched several shows on A&E about Cold Case crimes being solved decades after the crime occurred.
It goes without saying that there is considerable evil running rampant in our societies today.  [...]

The Dream of Comfortable

Dreaming of a life of comfort and why it is lacking

The Community That Is

Just published another article on Wrecked titled The Community That Is.  In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer says:
He who loves his dream of a community more than the community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.
Like most people, I struggle [...]

Hypocrisy

A friend and I were talking recently about cussing around Christians and non-Christians and we both realized an interesting dynamic: we’re both more comfortable cussing around Christians than we are around non-Christians.
No, I did not mess up on that sentence.
You see, around other Christians especially Christian friends, we know that we won’t be judged for [...]

iPhone Awesomeness

I can update my website from my iPhone. That’s amazing! I win.

Apathy

Relevant Magazine is doing a new campaign of sorts called Reject Apathy.  The premise, to summarize in my own words, is that talk is cheap.
Let me interrupt my own thoughts for a moment: in the past year, I’ve experienced a significant paradigm shift when it comes to my understanding of salvation, the Kingdom of God, [...]

Brushstrokes

I’m not much of an artist.  I’ve painted or drawn a couple of things here and there and I’ve acted some, but for the most part I’m not very…cultured…when it comes to these sorts of things.
One of the things that I love about paintings is the way the big picture is composed of a ton [...]

A New Way of Doing Church?

Consumerism is the world in which we live. How does it affect the church?

Balancing Tension

Why Balancing Tension?