A friend from high school who has a son with autism shared this video on what's it like for someone that's autistic to take a walk down the street. After watching the video, I can say it's a pretty good simulation of what I and others live with all the time.
Jesus is a Cat Person
One of the more common understandings of Christianity that I've found in Mainline churches is that God is all about love. I struggle with that belief. I know that God is a loving God, and as expressed in the life, death and resurrection of Christ, we get to see a God that really did love those... Continue Reading →
Doubt, Fear and Church Planting
On this upcoming Second Sunday of Easter, I wanted to share this sermon I preached back in 2006. It dealt a bit with some of the struggles of church planting and relating that to the fear of the disciples in the locked room. Here's a snippet:You know, I’ve learned something about starting a church: it’s... Continue Reading →
Autism and Grace
Rod Dreher, who has a son who is also autistic, wrote a post called the "Gift of Autism," and he said he wrote that title with some trepidation.As someone who is autistic, I can understand that. I know the common thing among those of us who are autistic is to talk about how wonderful being... Continue Reading →
The Problems With Following Jesus
I finally finished reading Andrew Sullivan's Holy Week essay on Christianity in Crisis. There's a lot of think about in this article, so I have a list of what questions came to mind as a read this.We really can't know Jesus without the church. Sullivan seems to think there is the pure Jesus out there... Continue Reading →
Sunday Sermon: “What a Fool Believes”
“What a Fool Believes”Mark 1:1-11, Philipians 2:5-11April 1, 2011 (Palm Sunday)First Christian ChurchMinneapolis, MN“As members of the Christian Church,We confess that Jesus is the Christ,the Son of the living God,and proclaim him Lord and Savior of the world.In Christ's name and by his gracewe accept our mission of witnessand service to all people.” The first... Continue Reading →
Trayvon Martin, Job and the Grace of Silence
11When Job’s three friends heard about all this disaster that had happened to him, they came, each one from his home—Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah. They agreed to come so they could console and comfort him. 12When they looked up from a distance and didn’t recognize him, they wept loudly.... Continue Reading →
Focus…Focus…Focus
One of the things that kind of comes with the odd package that is me, is that I have a hard time focusing on things. I space out a lot of the time, finding it hard to focus on the task at hand. I seem overstimulated, not able to really filter things out. This leads... Continue Reading →
How I Get Autism, Fears and Church Planting in One Post
I am not a good leader.This is not some confession of being guilty of some terrible sin, it's more of a judgement- I'm not a good leader. The people skills that others have, I don't have- at least not naturally. Being someone with Aspergers means having to learn how interact with people, something that is... Continue Reading →
What Does It Mean to Be Prophetic?
I stumbled across a post by Methodist blogger Allan Bevere on the prophetic nature of the church. He ends to post like this:As I continue to say-- when Christians hear the word "politics" they should not think state; they should think church. For Christians, our politic is church. But that clearly is not what it... Continue Reading →
The Clockwork Pastor 