A Short Introduction For some time, I’ve thought it would be fun to share the books that have had the biggest impact on me each year. I chose the title “Top Five Books for 2022” because they were not necessarily published this year, but they’ve...
Love, Loss & Top Gun (Ground Level One) By Stuart Strachan Jr. One of the realities of getting older (at least for me), has been a diminishing enjoyment of movies, or at least, the action genre. It’s the formulaic, always-the-same story-arc that makes it hard for...
“God is doing a new thing.” – Isaiah 43 I have heard this scripture passage quoted multiple times in the last three years and it still stirs something within me. Do you feel it too? God is doing something new in this cultural moment. But how do we receive it? As...
Fundraiser and Chief Development Officer is probably not our primary picture of the Apostle Paul. Frankly, it isn’t the primary picture we most likely have of ourselves, either, is it? When we answered the call to the ministry, money was not top of mind; otherwise,...
Something I’ve noticed over time is that, while we Protestants try to live “sola scriptura (by scripture alone),” a large number of traditions have crept into our theology and praxis over time. One of those areas is in the realm of preaching. When I was in seminary,...