Why I’ll Miss Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard died late last week after a battle with panreatic cancer, and the news was particularly heavy for me, even though I never met him. I picked up Dallas […]
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Demolition is Better if You are Building Something
My men’s group is going through a study by Richard Rohr on the Enneagram, a model for human personality and a tool for personal transformation. The introductory session was outstanding, […]
Being Present
. As an answer to the first question in the video*, “What is required to be fully present in each moment, to notice the now?”, I have a few practical […]
Pack Your Baggage
Last week, I was reading Richard Rohr’s book, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men, and came across something that has been a theme in my life, though […]
An Epiphany During Epiphany
I’m having one of those moments when I keep hearing or reading the same theme repeatedly, then at some point I snap out of my stupor and acknowledge the pattern. […]
Following Solomon Into The Dark
I was listening to one of my favorite albums last week and heard echoes of Ecclesiastes. Death Cab for Cutie seemed to be reading Solomon’s notes when they wrote much […]
Here Today
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” – Ecclesiastes 1:2 There is something important to understand about this word, “meaningless” (הבל “hebel”) that has also been translated […]
The Longer Path to Personal Transformation
In the past, I think I was committed to what I’ll call the short path to personal transformation. Let me clarify what I meant by “transformation” in my teenage years […]
Osama Bin Laden’s Death and the Kingdom of God
I recognize that I’m a little late on blogging about Osama Bin Laden’s death, but with the pace of life lately I’m happy to have been able to write anything […]
Multiple Choice Theology
I promised myself that I would not blog about the Rob Bell controversy, but fortunately I didn’t promise that to anyone else so I’m off the hook for this. I’ve […]
