freshest thought, hot off the presses, just crossed my mind, while waiting for my laptop to boot up.. noticed this common theme among many Christians (when I say “many”, I don’t have a empirical quantitative measurement on it, whether it’s 30-50% significant numbers of, 50.1% simple majority, 66.7% majority, 85-90% overwhelming majority, or 91%+ almost […]

came across some (old) poignant reflections about faith from outsiders looking in to the faith community.. I appreciate their honesty.. 1 Peter 3:15 says that normal people will (1) ask about the hope we Christians have (2) then, we are invited to give an answer; instead, people see rules and rituals and anti-intellectualism that stifle […]

Dave Lee is abroad in Iraq on a vision trip, October 20th to November 6th. He’s posting real-time updates from Iraq at www.iraqprayer.com . He’d covet your intercessions! And please pass the word along to others.

Here’s my recurring meta-theme, the intrigue of the interconnectivity and interplay of churches and cultures, and that’s one reason why Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives is a watershed and critical book to me.. I like it that a mainstream conversation is willing now to wrestle with this interplay, rather than to lock it away […]

in this moment of communion, and reflecting on the spoken word (Brian shared themes from the HBO movie Wit, incredibly powerful). And how death gives us a fresh perspective on life.. I like how he weaved the metaphor of baptism and communion into that story, and how sacred those 2 things are in our story.. […]