Family Meals
Growing up my family always ate meals together. Meals weren’t fancy, but they tasted great. Conversation wasn’t stimulating, but everyone shared their day and we discussed whatever might be an issue at...
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Images of God
This frontpage headline from USA Today caught my attention today: “View of God can predict values, politics.” According to the article: A new survey of religion in the USA finds four very different...
View ArticleSerendipity
I have a story to share that some will undoubtedly find too lacking in credibility to believe…in fact, I see it as no less than a miracle. Whether others do not, well, that isn’t the point. It is an...
View ArticleInspiration from Irwin
I heard Irwin McManus speak at a Promisekeepers event several years ago, and when I started looking for Christian-focused podcasts I was thrilled to find his California church, Mosaic, regularly...
View ArticleNeed for authenticity
I want to avoid a tendency that often happens in Christian circles, for people to be “fake” and pretend everything is hunky-dory– and for “outsiders” to the body of believers to get the mistaken...
View ArticleGreat questions about God
My now 9 year old son asked some great questions last night in the car to my wife and I as we drove home from his “celebration” birthday dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Oklahoma City. We had...
View ArticleHow Rich are you?
Our church is looking at Overload. Last Sunday our Pastor spoke on Financial Overload. Here’s a segment from the video we viewed. Go ahead and plug your annual income into this website. You are rich....
View ArticleCompatibility between science and faith
I attended a wonderful Christian men’s conference at Mo-Ranch in south Texas this weekend, and emerged from the weekend with 22 pages of handwritten notes! To begin the work I need to do in processing...
View Article5th Graders speak: “Who Is Jesus?”
5th grade students in the Sunday school class I’m co-teaching this semester contributed to this four minute audio podcast on the theme, “Who Is Jesus?” Some of these recordings were made during our...
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Jesus on WikiPedia
In writing a post this evening about the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools (“WikiPedia to go (an offline download for schools)”) I briefly scanned the opening paragraphs of the site’s article for...
View ArticleThe Good Life: Stewardship
These are my notes from John Gruel’s class, “The Good Life: Stewardship” on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. This was shared as a class following “The Gathering” at 1st Presbyterian Church in Edmond,...
View ArticleChoosing Legalism over Grace
Our church is currently in the midst of a series called “Real Life”. The focus is on daily living, what it looks like to be a Christian. It’s really a study on the book of Galatians. I bookmarked a...
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Week 2: The Truth Project
Our church is offering an adult summer school class this year using “The Truth Project” as the curriculum. These are my notes from week 2. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Dr. Del Tackett...
View ArticleWeek 1: The Truth Project
Our church is offering an adult summer school class this year using “The Truth Project” as the curriculum. These are my notes from week 1. (I took these notes on my iPhone via EverNote, and am pasting...
View ArticleGreat questions tonight at dinner
These are some of the great questions our two daughters asked tonight at dinner. Shelly and I did our best to answer these. Wow this was challenging! In Mulan they pray and speak to “the ancestors”...
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Why did God create me? (Lesson intro and class podcast)
Cross-posted to the BLASTcast blog. This morning in our 5th grade Sunday school class we started a new unit with the theme, “Why did God Create Me?” We read and discussed the following verses:...
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Why are we not perfect?
Update 26 Dec 2014: The podcast links for BLASTcast in 2009 are unfortunately broken due to a server change. (If you’re looking for our podcast recording from December 6th, this is it! Please be sure...
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Humanity and Sin
These are my notes from Mateen Elass’ lesson on “Humanity and Sin” on January 27, 2010, at First Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is using a curriculum from: www.reclaimingthemind.org This...
View ArticleDiscussing Matthew 7:21-23
These were our discussion questions about Matthew 7:21-23 this morning in my men’s group. “What Does It Take to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven?†1) Jesus envisions conversations that will take place...
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Is Jesus the only path to salvation?
The following comment and question was posted on my main blog on a recent entry, “Message for Oklahoma Christians: Muslims are NOT our enemies.” The comment was: I have one thing to ask of the people...
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