Geoffrey Holsclaw
I’ve just started teaching a class at Trinity on “Issues for Men in Ministry.” I’m taking the angle that really it is manhood that is the mystery here, not not ministry. That unless men learn (maybe for the first time) what manhood is then it is impossible to function as a man in ministry. Indeed, […]
An essential failure in disciple in our church, and perhaps in evangelicalism, is dawning on me. Not only a failure to follow Christ in his radical discipleship, in his self-giving love, in his calls from/against the world, for the sake of the world. This failure of discipleship is of course the great omission of which […]
It is often claimed that the missional church might be loosing the high standard of expository preaching. And often we don’t exactly help to clarify this when we rail against individualized, overly rationalistic, disembodied information dumps which masquerade as the worst of expository preaching (love ya Dave). And when we claim that interpretation is a […]
Last week I was in LA at the Wesleyan Philsophical Society. I presented a paper on “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money.” The abstract is below and then after the break is the paper. If you are interested then you should definitely also check out Jason A. Coker’s post on a similar topic: The […]
Sin is nothing masquerading as something. Sin merely preys on something, on anything, but itself it is nothing. Sin produces desire for what doesn’t exist. It takes what is good, adds NOTHING to it, nothing but disordered desire, and, BAM, now there is something new, something disfigured and ugly. Wanton desires warp creation (what is […]