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Tim Tebow is Weird

As I said in my last post on Tim Tebow I really think that the reason that many people have a problem with him is that he is too positive, enthusiastic and transparent for our cynical and guarded society. He was born to missionary parents in a foreign country and was homeschooled and those kinds of experiences are g...

I’ve recently become a stay-at-home-dad. I was “let go” from my job without warning despite the fact that I was regularly meeting my sales goals. Since I had been doing well my wife, a physical therapist, was able to cut back to only a few days of work a month – which she did mainly to keep up her license and pay h...

This post is partially in response to this blog post by Donald Miller: Should the Church be led by teachers and scholars? 

In America we have a strong anti-intellectual streak running through ou...

This post is partially in response to this blog post by Donald Miller: Stop being motivated by guilt.

There are many people these days who disparage the idea of being motivated by duty. They contrast duty to love, and say tha...

     Many westerners seem to be perplexed by what they view as an overreaction on the part of Muslims to such things as cartoons of Mohamed and the threat of burning the Qur’an. Some of us may also look at Hindus with disdain because they believe cows are sacred. However, a recent news article gave me some insight as to what we as westerners view as sacred.

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In my last post I said that I was the prodigal son’s brother. In this post I will explain what I meant by that. First, for those who are unfamiliar with the story of the prodigal son let me briefly sum up. There was a rich man who had two sons. One of the sons told his dad to give him his inheritance. That son took his money an...

What’s worse: legalism or antinomianism? Antinomianism is the belief that God’s grace frees Christians from the obligation of following his moral law. Legalism is the belief that we merit at least some part of our salvation through adherence to God’s moral law – and maybe a few o...

Neither Christians, nor Americans have a monopoly on Moralism, but since I am a Christian and an American I will speak from this perspective. I define moralism as an inordinate focus upon behavior – a moralist does not care about motives. A moralist does not care about the spirit of the law, only the letter. A moralist seeks to...

This is a tag on to my last posting. So if you haven't read that one, read it first. 

With the approaching birth of my daughter there has been in me the reawakening, or rather remembering, of an old desire. That is my desire to be a good father and a good husband.