Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
Categories: changing mindsets, Meanderings (look it up), religion
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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
Ben from live.awake left a comment on my last post that really sparked my thinking. The entire comment is well worth reading, but here’s just a snippet:
“The idea that the culture is the enemy and the Church is a sanctuary in which to hide from it is in total opposition to Jesus’ teaching….we feel this constant need to perform well, look right, act right, and never get close enough to a sinner to get stained by them.”
This stuck with me because it touches on a change that is taking place in my thinking, and in my approach to life and ministry in general.
Categories: Meanderings (look it up), Rantings
Categories: General
Just checking in. I have been swamped the past couple of days with an extended family member in the hospital, plus trying to keep up with some things that have fallen behind. Sooooo….keep checking back. I’ll have something more to say soon.
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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
So apparently the talk about the Lakeland revival meetings has not quieted down in the blogosphere. It is a hot topic, to be sure. I know a couple of pastors who have already traveled down to see what is happening.
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings
Categories: changing mindsets, prayer
I’ve blogged about it before, so I’ll try not to repeat myself too much. But I had an extended time of crisis and trial, and all my prayers, praising, declaration and faith formulas apparently did nothing to turn things around. When my strength was exhausted, I gave up–in the sense that I leaned myself completely on the Lord, declaring that we would survive (or not) by His hand alone. And it wasn’t until I let go that things began to turn around; and God gave us rest.
Categories: food for thought
I’ve written a couple of posts making reference to the healing revival going on in Lakeland, Florida. You can read them here and here to get some background for this post. But for the time being, I want to focus some attention on a statement I made in the last post I wrote about it:
“An act of mercy does not constitute an act of validation.”