"Be angry and sin not" says Paul (Eph 4:26), "angry" being a command. What a strange thing for Paul to say. Perhaps it violates our sensibilities about what it means…
andrewarndtAugust 16, 2011
Last night I had the good privilege of (merely) participating in one of our worship services at Bloom. Normally, when I'm at our gatherings, I'm uber-involved. And that's okay, since…
andrewarndtAugust 1, 2011
Today marks the end of an era. The 20's are officially over. It was a good decade. I got married (actually, that happened at 19, but we'll throw it in…
andrewarndtJuly 26, 2011
Last night Mandi, the kids, and I drove back into Denver after spending a long weekend in Tulsa. Despite the outrageously high temperatures and stifling humidity (it was near 110…
andrewarndtJuly 7, 2011
Fatherhood is a massively important theme of the Scriptures. Many of the biblical stories themselves take place within the complex dynamic of the father-child relationship: Abraham and Isaac, Eli and…
andrewarndtJune 20, 2011
As we've been working our way through Ephesians this summer at Bloom, I found this little snippet out of chapter 4 pretty compelling: 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then,…
andrewarndtJune 14, 2011
"Post-evangelical", "post-liberal", "post-modern", "post-colonial", "post-Christendom", "emergING", "emergENT", "third way", "organic", "centrist"... the world of North American Christianity is a landscape littered with words like these like shells scattered across the…
andrewarndtJune 9, 2011
The British scholar David Bebbington in his work Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, defined evangelicalism in a way that I find particularly helpful. …
andrewarndtJune 1, 2011
In our house church of late, we've been talking about what appears to be the stunning lack of conversion stories happening in the American church. At least in our city…
andrewarndtMay 26, 2011
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