Mechanic? Not me.

It’s hard being clueless about mechanical things.


It’s hard being clueless about mechanical things.

Okay. I admit it. I’m obsessed with Dallas Willard. I read this tonight in his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines. “The secret of the easy yoke, then, is to learn from Christ how to live our total lives, how to invest all our time and our energies of mind and body as he did….

After months of waiting and wondering I received a letter today. While I was preparing my application (back in the fall) I found reading successful PhD applicants’ Statements of Intent very helpful. Here’s what I wrote to the TST Admissions Committee: TST Statement of Intent – Jason Mills If my denominational colleges are any indication of…
I’m at my best when dreaming. Not a pie-in-the-sky kind of fantasizing but a “let’s pretend we relaxed the rules a bit” sort of dreaming. Of course, dreams are always best when they are grounded in a firm sense of what has happened in the past and what is currently happening in the present. When…
This is a shout out to everyone who has encouraged me lately. As I said in my last post, you can think what you want. But as you’ll see from this post, I like encouragement. To all of you who have posted encouraging comments on my blog, thank-you. To everyone who has emailed me words…
I’ve been writing a Distance Education New Testament course since May. It’s August and I’m so close to being finished that I can almost taste it. Tonight Erika spent a much needed evening out with a friend. While she was sipping coffee, I was combing through a textbook looking for juicy test questions….

Sometimes I wonder what the church would be like without politics. As I read the definitions for the term (below), I was struck by the references to power. Isn’t it funny that the very community where power should be shared and given away to others tends to be the context where power is used to…