Need renewal?

This post features the media links - Youtube and podcasts - to a sermon series I preached in January 2022 about "renewal." I rarely post here about sermons I've preached, but the response and impact of this series upon me and our church was special. My hope is that God uses it in your life to bring spiritual renewal.

Ordinary Celebrity: Ryan Metz

Listen to this episode of the Ordinary Celebrity podcast which catches up with Ryan Metz and discusses the challenges of being a college athlete, student, and follower of Jesus.

“Let’s talk about totalitarianism.”

Most Christians are so busy with everyday-ness that they never pause to consider things like cultural and political movements. School, work, responsibilities at home, shuttling kids to activities and practices and church all keep us focused on good things. Those are all really good things. But we need to wake up and smell the air of culture we're currently breathing. Being awake is a condition of being ready for what God wants to do in us, through us and around us. It's time to talk about the growing creep of totalitarianism and why it's a very bad thing.

Top Posts of 2021

This is my annual look-back on which blog posts received the most traffic. Thanks for reading along and following my blog for another year! At end of the post, I offer my own personal favorites (which often aren't my readers!).

Top Books I Read in 2021

Another year and another annual book post. The genres of books I read last year were definitely varied. Politics and social justice issues were an investment. Books on faith and intimacy with Jesus are to be expected. I enjoyed a few new fiction series as well! Here's the best of what I read...

Think different.

It's been almost two years of "14 days to bend the curve." If you've gotten your COVID information from the MSM, CDC or FDA, surely by now, you've started wondering why "science" changed so drastically in just a few months of early 2020.

It’s 2022. Will this year be “new?”

Is 2022 just the second bad sequel to 2020, following a less-than-stellar 2021? Or is it pregnant with hope and possibility? Over and above rampant COVID, cultural issues and partisan politics, there's a perspective and reality that will help you see 2022 as indeed being a "happy new year."

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