I recently came across a very helpful interview with J. I. Packer about the necessity of preaching on the Trinity called "God's Triple Team." Packer is probably best known as the author of Knowing God, and is also a professor at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Now, I love Packer's work because he calls us …
Revealing?: reflections on Willow’s “Follow Me”
I’ve finally taken the chance to review the second book associated with Willow Creek’s Reveal study entitled Follow Me. Better late than never, they say, so I'm sending off some of my reflections here at the blog. Building off of the research from Reveal, this next part of the study looks at spiritual growth, what …
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“Notice Me”
In the recent discussion about the value of Twitter, some folks commented on the tendency of folks to be shameless self-promoters in the new media. Seth Godin has a great post that addresses this in very short form. He writes that the new mantra of the web is: "notice me." He goes on to suggest …
In the Bedroom…
This past Sunday, October 18th, Kelly and I spoke together at Brooklife Church in the third week of our series on marriage entitled "Happily Ever After?" Our message was entitled "In the Bedroom" and, as you might expect, we were talking about sex and sexuality. Our message addressed the goodness of sexuality, the need for …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and “Life Together”
In my last sermon at Brooklife on 1 Corinthians 12 about the body of Christ and each members' place in it, I mentioned what is in my opinion the best book on the church and true Christian community. That book is Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran theologian, professor, and author …
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