"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…
I know that I am veering into dangerous territory spiritually when I am more worried about what is "next" than I am with what is now right in front of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
"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…
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