Excellent article on Tim Keller’s passion for Manhattan. I love the “localness” of Keller’s gospel. It’s good and right.
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You can listen to a dialogue sermon Patrick Mead and I did on “heaven” (May 3rd) from a scientific (Patrick) and theological (moi) perspective. I also did the first week in this series (April 19th) at Rochester [...]

Lucas is four weeks old today. Here’s a fun photo for you.
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Everything in me says “yes” to the truth of this statement: The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

My time as a husband, father, son, brother, friend, minister, teacher, coach, and writer bears witness to the accuracy of this statement.

But [...]

Here are three excerpts I’ve been chewing on this week. The excerpts come from: Genesis, Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions and Randy Harris’s (new book) God Work.
Kara and I are reading through Genesis together right now. We stumbled upon this about a week ago. In Genesis 2:18-20, the text reads, “Then the Lord God said, ‘It [...]

Props to the one guy FOX displayed at the Packer/Lions game who held the sign “I Still Believe: Lions 1-15.” If that isn’t remnant theology . . . I don’t know what is. The people who still root for the Lions are people of deep, deep faith.
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The Cowboys suffered a brutal loss to the [...]

This week, I’m following two great discussions. One has to do with how we interpret the Bible in a complex culture. The other is about “a guy going to see about a girl”–to use a line from a recent American classic film.