When I say the apostle’s creed, I am swept again into the continuity of the Christian gospel. I am reminded that what we are doing as a church is neither novel nor new. The creed reminds me of both the smallness and the grandness of our local church...

I think Christians in America have largely accepted the terms of “freedom of indifference.” We think of freedom as being able to do what we like. Any parameters given to us are casually dismissed as archaic “law,” irrelevant to following Jesus...

I am participating in a book project due out later this year called Pentecostals and Peacemaking: Heritage, Theology and the 21st Century. A team of wonderful Pentecostal scholars that I love and respect are contributing. Stanley Hauerwas is doing a foreword...

Sabbath (or shabbat, translated as "cease and desist") is God's gift to His people in the wilderness. Far from drudgery, Sabbath is a primal gift of God that precedes even the giving of the law...

So my challenge for day one is simply this: CHANGE THE QUESTION. I begin with the presumption that the first and most overarching question of wilderness time is "how long do I have to be here?"...

To know that God has led me into this place of the wilderness for a time of training and testing - not a time of judgment - is hard to understand...

We think of the wilderness as a horror to avoid, when in fact God says make sure to pick up some souvenirs to remind you of how He met us there...

Looking back from the wilderness, the closest thing the people of God had to certainty was in the relentless, unwavering cruelty of Pharoah...