If all goes well Im going to be ordained sometime this summer. As I have been transitioning into full time ministry I have had more discussions with my senior pastor about how I dress that almost any other topic.
Here is the question how should a pastor dress? Should he dress like business guy? Should he [...]
In Ezekiel 37 there is a passage that might be called the zombie chapter. Way before George Romero made the undead famous, Ezekiel wrote about the dead rising back to life. Of course when you read Ezekiel 37, and see how the undead come to life in Romero, there are few similarities. In Romero’s films [...]
Mission is not an optional activity for Christ’s disciples. If they are not gatherers, they are scatterers. Some supposed that a church may feature worship and nurture, leaving gathering as a minor role… Such a church is actively involved in scattering for the congregation that ignores mission will atrophy and soon find itself shattered by [...]
We are currently in Louisville, The City of bourbon. Snoke, and I are having a great time.
Last night we went to the release performance for Ben Sollee’s new album at the 21c Museum.
Today we went to the 11, and 7pm worship gatherings at Sojourn Community Church.
I got to thinking about what was the same [...]
My finals are finished, and I have just a bit of reading and a few pages to write.
So here is what I’m planning for the next week, or so, at thedesocios.com:
1. I recently heard a lecture by Darren Patrick about the History of the Emergent Church, and I’m hoping to write a response.
I’d especially like [...]
Last Sunday Marshill started their new fall series in the book of Philippians.
Here is my relationship to Marshill, I love Jesus and they love Jesus.
I would consider myself a diaspora Marshiller, but I am not a member of the church. I have been reading Driscoll and listening to his sermons for 2 years now, since [...]
There is a great scene in the movie the 13th Warrior, where Ahmed(Antonio Banderas) is traveling with the 12 viking warriors, and he doesn’t know how to talk with them so he is just listening. They are telling stories, and laughing each others jokes. Then all of a sudden he understands one part of [...]
Do you ever feel sometimes like you wish CS Lewis was still writing the Screw Tape Letters. Lewis would have a field day with all the factions in the media discrediting each other.
“My Dear Wormwood,
In your last letter to me you expressed how excited you have been by all the public attention many [...]
“When belonging in the social hierarchy of the local church becomes a greater desire than becoming Christ to our neighbors outside the church we have returned to the glum decor of the castle walls. Hiding in fear of losing a kingdom we never had or were called to build…”
Great post over at setnservice.
I just came across a series of books by Hughes Oliphant Old, which examine how the church over the centuries has understood preaching and teaching the Scriptures. I always run into people that are expository only folks, and I ask them to show me the biblical evidence to prove that we can only preaching exegetically [...]