Thousand Acre Church

Angela and I have this ritual that has developed out of an enjoyment of Italian fast-food and used books.  Every so often, on date night, we will go to Olive Garden and stuff ourselves.  That gluttony is followed up with a trip to our oh-so-impressive used Christian book store, Baker Book House.  They are located […]

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Sigh…..
Deeply inhale….
Exhale….
Okay.  Now I’m ready.
There was a child abducted from the nursery at our church yesterday.  The child was found after surveillance videos were reviewed.  An email went out shortly after from the executive pastor with the subject line reading “Positive Outcome of Sunday 11:00 situation”.    You can read the news report here if you […]

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We had a discussion in Sunday school class this past Sunday that led to a comment from the teacher that went something like this, “You can be pissed-off  at God, you can be happy with God, you can be frustrated with God, etc.  BUT, don’t ever ‘Whatever!’ God.”  Have you ever “Whatever!”ed God?  You know what […]

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We hardly ever (if ever) eat a full meal when we observe the Lord’s Supper a.k.a. the Eucharist.  The best we can do is guess at what significance the meal would have in connection with this sacremental observance.  As part of this ongoing meal-sharing dialogue, I’ve received more than one comment about the observance of […]

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I’ve been ingesting a stimulating book on the meal practices of the early church titled Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts.  I’m getting close to the end of the book, and I keep getting smacked around by these questions:

If sharing meals was important to Jesus, then why isn’t it as […]

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