Getting to the heart of it… (Continued from Part 1 and Part 2)
So if our trade language is (metaphorically) our consumerism in a broad sense, our heart language will come as no surprise… our heart language is love, in a narrow sense. What will speak the deepest to a culture consumed and consuming is sacrificial [...]

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Part 2: Our Trade Language (continued from the first post in this series).
So, what is America’s trade language? Ironically (or appropriately), it is trade itself; our trade language is consumerism.
Now, in this case I mean consumerism with a wide definition. We are a people trained to “buy,” from the commercialism of Saturday morning cartoons [...]

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Part 1: A little something the missionaries figured out…
A couple notes before I begin this entry: First, this is an expansion of an article I originally posted on my original blog (WiredForWorship.com, a URL I sadly no longer own) back in ’02. After reading through it again, I realized I still have a [...]

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Just posted at the East Campus Update blog about how worship changes us… check it out here… http://suncresteast.org/2009/01/20/how-worship-changes-us/

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This is a pic from my dinner the other day:

 At first I thought, through my mental filter of having worked in fast food once upon a time, “I can’t believe someone personally checked that these fries were hot, fresh AND crispy!” Then I realized that of course no one did, and those clever little X’s [...]

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