Bible

Advent and the Anxious Leaders

December 22, 2011

To follow my advent related post this last week called “Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All”, I wanted to post another advent related reflection. Much is made about Jesus coming as a baby, but less focus is given to what environment Jesus was born into as it relates to the political and religious [...]

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Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All

December 20, 2011

Here’s the third post in my Advent and Star Trek series where we actually get to the advent part! This was originally posted on December, 3, 2011 ————————— So have you ever thought of Star Trek’s “Borg” and Advent in the same thought and discussion? Probably not. But here it goes. Of course context helps [...]

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Brief Review – Scripture as Communication

June 28, 2011

Finished recently Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. This was a book written by one of my professors at Bethel Seminary during my long stretch going there part-time between 2004 and 2011. Jeannine Brown was my Introduction to Hermeneutics as well as one of my Greek profs. I found her to be a great teacher [...]

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Seeing What You Want. Not Seeing What You Don’t Know.

June 24, 2011

I’ve been in the process of Teaching/Coaching in an Introduction to Hermeneutics class for my ministry. It’s been fun and I’ve been thinking tons about meaning. But here’s a great quote from one of my former professors Jeannine Brown in her book called Scripture as Communication, “As one writer has put it, readers of Scripture [...]

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Those Who Make Them Become Like Them

June 17, 2011

One of my unique interests is observing the impact on organizations and systems upon personal and leadership formation. That’s a lot of fancy words for saying I pay a lot of attention to and I think a lot about what kind of impact the environments or cultures people are in have on those individual and [...]

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Quick Review – God’s Big Picture

June 6, 2011

This is a short book, but I found it super valuable. I read this to prepare for being basically a TA in an introductory hermeneutic course for the staff in my organization. It’s about 150 pages and reads pretty fast. It traces the whole of the Biblical narrative from Creation to Revelation as it relates [...]

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Deserts and Sirens

August 16, 2010

Last week I was in the desert, Palm Springs to be exact, for a few days for a final break with my whole side of the family. I love going out there, not because I particularly like being in the sun or because I’m all about swimming pools, but because of the desert scenery. Those [...]

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Are You Passionate or Reactionary?

July 26, 2010

One of the things I appreciate about people is when they are truly passionate about something – when they have a fire for something and are willing to do something about it. But sometimes we emit or we encounter fire in people that really isn’t passion, it’s primarily reaction.Reactionary people have a lot of passion, [...]

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Thoughts on Ruth

April 30, 2010

If you haven’t read this week’s guest blog by Jim O’Connor, you can get there by clicking on this link. Go check it out. I came away with a couple things I’m still thinking about and chances are you will too. I’m looking forward to more guest posts in the future. In the meantime, it’s [...]

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