Posts under ‘Missional Living’

This post is meant as a follow-up to to Empty Promises Part I, which I published about a month ago (before a hiatus for my marriage proposal and the holidays). So if you don’t remember the thoughts there, go ahead and re-read Part I if you would like this to make sense. I guess I want [...]

Discussing the Southside baptism party got me thinking about some greater truths. I think there are some greater lessons about holiness to be learned from it. To explain the title for this post, Dictionary.com defines apologetics this way: a-pol-o-get-ics [uh-pol-uh-jet-iks] : (noun) The branch of theology concerned with the defense or proof of Christianity. For a [...]

There is a storm brewing on the college campuses in America. With the emergence of the merit-based economy of YouTube, Wikipedia, and the blogosphere, anyone with a worthwhile insight, novel thought or creative idea can be an influencer. For the first time in history, each one of us has a real shot at ”going viral” and become a household name overnight. This decentralization [...]

Last night,  my house church community, the SouthSide New Life Team, met as a whole for the first time this school year. You may recall that our church has deemed this year The Year of Freedom, claiming the promises of Isaiah 49:8-21. As a New Life Team, we enjoy forming our own sub-vision; the unique [...]

The title probably sounds offensive if you haven’t read Part 1, and you probably won’t understand any background of this post unless you’ve read Part 2. Just sayin’… I spent much of Part 2 explaining my belief that most skeptics (most humans, for that matter) aren’t establishing their religious philosophy on purely intellectual grounds. Let me clarify that a bit, since [...]

This post would probably be more aptly titled “Why we ought to talk to atheists according to methods prescribed in Part 1“.  But I I like parallel structure, so it’s part 2. Take this one with a grain of salt because it has considerably less biblical support than part 1 and leans heavily upon my own experience and [...]

In case you don’t know me well, that’s not condescension you smell in the title. It’s sarcasm. I cringe at the thought of a how-to manual on interacting with the scary foreign monster called “Atheist”. I do, however, think Christians generally suck at engaging in spiritual dialogue with our more skeptical neighbors. So I am here to [...]