Why Christ Transforms Culture

From my message Rumors of Another World in the series Where to Find God (When He’s Missing) John 1:14a (NLT) – So the Word became human and made his home among us. This may very well be the most mind-blowing sentence in the entire Bible. The word, “Word,” is the Greek word “logos.” Logos is where we [...]

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Five Historical Views on the Relationship between Christ and Culture

Here is the chart with the five historical views on the relationship between Christ and culture that I shared in the message, “Rumors of Another World” last weekend.

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Finding Freedom from Pornography

This is the practical follow-up to my sermon on June 20, 2010 – “Lust, Lies and Truth.” You can listen here: http://www.epiphanystation.com/MEDIA Most people try to free themselves from a pornography addiction by doing either one or a combination of these things: Asserting their will (“I’m not going to look at pornography today.”). This is [...]

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The Secret of the Ugly Christmas Tree

[The following is an excerpt from a message I've given several times. It is one of my favorite sermons.] I’m kind of a scrooge. I don’t like all the commercial aspects of Christmas. I don’t like all the presents (though I still gratefully receive them) and the cookies and candies (although I still gladly indulge [...]

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Satan’s Christmas?

Ah… Halloween. The thorn in the side of every good-willed Christian parent. To celebrate or not? Participate in the prevailing culture or a Christian alternative equivalent? Let your kids dress up? What costumes are appropriate and which are not? Those are the questions Christian parents must wrestle with every year. (Not to mention how to [...]

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By the powers vested in me…

Recent events have me questioning marriage. No, not my own marriage. Really it’s the marriage of marriage that has me questioning – that is, the marriage between state and church in American marriages. In America, couples desiring to get married have to obtain a marriage license from the state. They then have to be married [...]

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Why Christians should watch “Religulous”

Last night, Heidi and I watched Bill Maher’s scathing documentary on religion, Religulous. Maher travels around the globe interviewing mostly religious extremists and bombarding them with questions meant to poke fun at the ridiculousness of their beliefs. The documentary is irreverent, foul, sacrilegious and blasphemous. And here are some reasons Christians should watch it. 1. [...]

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Where is our Freedom?

I didn’t really pay much attention to the Daniel Hauser case until he fled with his mom to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy. The story was already the buzz around the state, but it became national headlines when Daniel and his mom were on the lam. I couldn’t believe the attention the story was getting. Everything short [...]

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Postmodern Rurality

I think globalization is the driving force behind postmodernism. Globalization is powered by the media which is both driven by and catered to a new urban world. This new “global village” that we live in means that ironically people living in Minneapolis have more in common with people living around the world in Tokyo than [...]

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What is Postmodernism?

I had a couple different conversations last week that brought up something I had written years earlier about postmodernism. I have never talked about this on this blog or in Cushing (it’s kind of been my secret double life), but I will here to lay the foundation for a subsequent post on “postmodernism & rurality.”

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