Underground Hip Hop
Thoughts and musings on hip hop culture.Top 5 Books on Healing
By popular request (most recently my good friend, Aaron Prill), I've decided to put forth my top five healing prayer books. Before jumping into my list, a couple prefatory remarks. First, these are books that I find most biblical/theologically accurate,...
How to Get Out of Making Disciples: The Art of Evangelistic Excuses
Does your pesky pastor or church community keep emphasizing God's mission? Are there regular reminders of the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20) and the purpose of Holy Spirit in evangelism (Acts 1:8)? Never fear! Here are the top ten excuses you can use to get out of...
Centering Biblical Theology in the Vineyard: King & Kingdom
"Are Vineyard churches and pastors Calvinistic or Arminian?" I remember the question well because I was trying to choose between about five different answers, but I decided to go with the best answer I could muster: "Yes." For some, one must be either a Calvinist or...
The Pathos of Academic Scholarship: Why I Almost Wept Upon Completion of My Dissertation
On Tuesday of this week, I typed the final sentence of the dissertation I have been working on for the past two years. As soon as the last stroke of my MacBook Pro's keyboard, I had this very surprising sensation come over me. On one hand, I couldn't believe that I...
Massive Book Sale
Pardon me for posting this here. I'm currently selling a bunch of books that I have doubles of as I have moved to using more electronic versions (kindle and Logos). I am selling the following list of books: Philip Schaff – History of the Christian Church (8 volumes in...
Should the kingdom of God be viewed against the kingdom of the cross? Ummm… no.
Pick up Crown of Thorns today!
#VineyardGlobalFamily Recap (Day 1)
Eleanor Mumford. Just... Eleanor Mumford. The first day of the #VineyardGlobalFamily conference was epic. In addition to seeing a ton of some of my favorite people in the world, I got to finally meet a ton of people that I've only known via Facebook or Twitter or even...
Bring Your Hawaiian Shirt to Columbus: Tuesday, July 7, in Columbus!
Hawaiian shirts and the Vineyard go together like Steve Nicholson and Diet Dr. Pepper. Those wonderful Aloha shirts characterize Vineyard gatherings in the same way that sandals and NIV Bible's do. This up and coming week, from July 6-9th, the Vineyard USA 2015...
An Interview w/ Dr. Mark Cartledge
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkNWH9WGd-Y] Pick up a copy of Mark's new book The Mediation of the Spirit today! From the publisher: "How might a distinctively Pentecostal and charismatic theological perspective inform and enrich the discourse of academic...
“Preaching with Accuracy,” by Randal E. Pelton (a review)
Finding helpful books on preaching can be challenging because there is no shortage of books on the subject. There are lots of books claiming to offer "secrets" to preaching, including the "secret to preaching without notes," which I've written about before (full...
