Urban Reformation

“There are at least two places in the psalms when the word “broken” is used when it comes to our own spirit. I’m sure there are more, but these are the ones that pertain to spirit. A friend of mine and I were having coffee this evening at a local Starbucks, surprise!  And the topic [...]

Spanking has long fallen by the wayside in public schools, and there are certainly skeptics in the public eye who have come up with every “other” form of discipline besides spanking.  I am not sure if it’s based in guilt, or perhaps a child had a “harsh” experience from their own childhood.  I know that [...]

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.. – Romans 6:12 One thing that God has been teaching me, and in my own daily experiences, all times that I can think of when there is strife, pain, difficulty in this life it’s rooted in a few things.  Primarily [...]

Yesterday at Panera, met I had the opportunity to meet Gus Suarez, who is the recently the new Professor of Church Planting, Director Nehemiah Center for North American Church Planting @ Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.  He’s back in the corner with two students who were with him and I was overhearing them [...]

Do you ever get the sense that you’re going through life in a routine, and although you’re a believer, the gradual routine of life, just doesn’t seem to be the same as what you read in the bible. There is something to be said no doubt for living a quiet and peaceful life, and doing [...]

As of late I have had difficulty “regaining” what I would said is “right” perspective or “God’s” perspective.  However, a couple of things came out in James this morning for me.  Besides the first part of take joy in those trials, I camped on “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast.”  This society is so [...]

Yesterday my wife had the opportunity to go spend time with a friend, which afforded me the opportunity to take the children to the park.  We brought our dog along with us, Nitro.  Little did I know that Nitro would be such a conversation piece.  As the children ran over to the new playground equipment [...]

We have been meeting together on Saturday mornings.  It’s been a rich time as we go to seminary, (not literally go to seminary) but the book we’re going through every Wed, I’ve written about before is a book of ecclesiology of sorts.  The book which I have blogged about in the past is The Trellis [...]

I started to write a blog based upon this and found out that after doing a google search there was something very very similar to what I was about to write already out there in cyber-space.  I understand, no thought I have is my own, and there is nothing new under the sun, but I [...]

God has been teaching me a lot lately about differences in people, ministries, families, and life in general.  Some of these differences in people are personal differences, some of them doctrinal differences, some rest in philosophical differences, some are differences, in culture, understanding, presuppositions, and so forth.  As you can tell just in the opening [...]