Very interesting video interview with Mark Driscoll (hat tip: Adrian Warnock) where he talks about some of his views of Sydney, Australia based on research he’s conducted, along with other miscellaneous spiritual or personal topics. Funny thing is I rarely read or listen to anything by Mark and actually disagree with some of his theology, [...]
Great artists steal, according to Picasso, so I’ll borrow a page from Mark Batterson and say how much I like the idea of becoming the solution to the problem. It’s so easy to sit around and gripe about what’s wrong in churches and then leave when it bugs you…the hard choice is getting off your [...]
It’s tempting to spend a lot of time talking about pet theories regarding the state of the Church today and what revival should look like, but, to quote Mahatma Gandhi, you must be the change you want to see in the world. So that means that it’s important to give the experiences and practices of [...]
Editor’s note: upon re-reading this post, I felt it necessary to state my hands are far from clean in regards to my own level of discernment, and I am hardly one to claim I have all the answers to these issues. I’m as guilty of falling into error as the next guy. We can all [...]
I’ve been doing some intense thinking lately, which is why I haven’t posted in a little while. This intense thinking has led me to some intense answers, and rather than let my brain explode trying to hold it all in, I figured I’d unpack my inclinations a bit here on Finite Calls Infinite and start [...]
If you’ve never heard of the “Florida outpouring” or “Lakeland revival”, then you probably can skim though this post. Don’t skip it though, because there’s some good stuff at the end. If you have, then you may be feeling very confused, disappointed, lost, even betrayed right now. It started out so unassuming…another conference at a [...]
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” — Matthew 5:5 “But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.” — Psalms 37:11 We’re on a mini-series discussing the different metaphors for trust. When I was thinking about the theme of today’s message, I started out musing on the [...]
Taken at Lake Fairfax Park outside of Reston, VA Visit photo gallery
I’ve been eating up a book I recently bought called Pagan Christianity, which has been making waves in the Christian community since its release at the beginning of this year. Basically, the book makes the outrageous claim that virtually everything that happens in a typical church service, whether Evangelical, Pentecostal, Mainline Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, or [...]
Last week I mentioned that we would be embarking on a mini-series regarding the issue of trust. Trust is a hard thing to come by. Faith is a word we have watered down in the English language — some people even define it as belief in the absence of any evidence. Quite frankly, that definition [...]
