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  • This article is posted on The Religion Forum in response to my friend, Chris,  and you can comment here and/or there.  I have to confess that I take something of a "much ado about nothing" approach to the question while a cautious approach to the agenda behind the resurgence of the question. Inasmuch as it…

  • Da Vinci Codes and Overloads

    First, let’s get the overload part out of the way as if I could because I have been (overloadED). It is all of my own making and that’s the way it is. But let me be the first to welcome myself back. Now, concerning Mr. Brown’s novel and soon to be released movie, The Da…

  • Politically Incorrect

    I hate to offend, but to never offend would be to never take a position on anything. And I am not sure this is a position. Nor am I sure I understand all the variables. I have been listening to arguments and, as with most viewpoints, people on both sides have good points and are…

  • Critical and Strategic Thinking

    I am developing a workshop on critical and strategic thinking. I would value dialogue on this subject and am posting this framework as a launch pad.   How to Think Critically and Strategically   T  Topic – We must have something to think about.  Technique – We must cultivate processing skills.  Timeliness – We must…

  • Blessed and Challenged

    David Wainscott blessed the socks off of me at a Pastor’s Cluster Good Friday service here in Fresno last week. After considerable begging, pleading, and bribery (just exaggerating), he posted his message on his blog. I was especially stunned (of the shock and awe variety) by the story of Thomas Hauker from the 16th century.…

  • I’ve been exploring. This world of blogging is so fascinating and there is so much to learn that I often forget to write. I’ve been updating some of my Blogger postings over the last week. They are specialized and narrow – which I seldom am – so it is a good discipline for me. One…

  • Better to Say …

    Someone, I wish I knew who, was first to tell me that if I had nothing to say, then shut up. It was very good advice. I have never really practiced it, but I am sure it was good advice for someone. I never know who reads what and I have a lot of pages…

  • Fear of Empty Tombs

      A Meditaton on Matthew 28:1-10 It had not occurred to me that there might be a pervasive fear among us of empty tombs. I am certainly aware of the fear of death – and that might be part of it. I have known people who were afraid to look at dead bodies or attend…

  • Don’t Fall For It

    I’ve updated Pastor Tom’s Roman Road with an entry on Romans 1:21-23. I call it The Bogus Exchange. In the previous post, I looked at Paul’s argument as to why man has no excuse for refusing to worship God. It is not what we do not know that holds us accountable, but what we do…

  • Legacy

    I attended a funeral today. It was for a fellow pastor and it was a deeply moving and disturbing experience. The part that was moving was obvious to all. This brother had lived, in just less than 52 years, a full and productive life. He was an inspiration to all who knew him. He was…