Over the last thirty years, there’s something all American Christian men have been programmed to believe. The lie goes something like this: Every man is looking for a dragon to slay. Or maybe it’s couched as men need a battle to fight. But the problem with seeing ourselves as hammers is that
Continue readingHammers and Nails: The Warrior Christian Fallacy (part 1)
“Have you seen Death of a Pastor’s Wife?” a friend asked recently. At that point, we hadn’t. We had only heard about it, and what we’d heard was repulsive. But since the film was clearly a topic of conversation in church circles, I gave it a watch last weekend. Aside from being
Continue reading4 Lessons for the Church from Death of a Pastor’s Wife
Hang out in church leadership circles long enough, and you might hear something like this: The fastest way to grow the body of Christ is to get more butts in seats. Which means the more people we can get into a church service, the greater the odds of reaching the ones who’ll
Continue readingButts In Seats: The Paradox of Corporate Christianity
Most of us learned in elementary science class that the human body is composed of around 60% water. It’s even more so for infants (75-78%). You also probably learned early on that water is a molecule consisting of two hydrogen atoms bonded by a single oxygen atom (H2O). That’s about as far
Continue readingFrequencies, Worship, & the 440Hz Dilemma (part 2)
If you tune an instrument, chances are you’re tuning it to 440Hz, and probably unwittingly because 440Hz is the standard all instrument tuning apps are set to by default. We can change that in the settings, but how many people actually do so? And why might we want to? “In every form
Continue readingFrequencies, Worship, & the 440Hz Dilemma (part 1)
It’s a folly of humans to simultaneously think too much and too little of ourselves. If we act as though we’re essential elements to God’s plans, we can fall into prideful arrogance and self-idolatry. Or worse, become cult leaders and genocidal maniacs, justifying everything we do as a divine assignment. On the
Continue readingThe Gospel: Third Heaven Warfare, Simplified
It was nothing close to the 90mph windstorms that we’d endured earlier that winter, which had left much of our borough without power for days on end. Nope, just a mild, breezy January evening in Wasilla, Alaska. But suddenly we heard a loud crunch outside. Curious, my boys looked up from their