Black Belt Spirituality

       Saw a good post by Tullian Tchividjian the other day on cancel culture. And I have to agree. We live in a super charged social media world today. Whether Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or whatever, everyone has an online presence. And debate happens quickly and often loud voices call for destroying hot takes and those who share them. I've never called for someone to be cancelled, but have gotten swept twitter debates. I'll just say Resurrectiongate. So here's some thoughts from a sermon I recently preached:         Too often we forget the redeeming and reconciling power of Christ’s blood shed for us on the cross. We get caught up in our humanity, our own brokenness and shortcomings that we allow those things to get in the way of allowing the spirit of God to come upon us to worship fully together and further the work of Christ.          When people are brought into the body of believers there is always a period of growth, and adaptation. With each person bringi

 I haven't blogged in over a year. Father forgive for I have sinned.  It's been a busy year. My wife and I now have a son, Calvin who is now 3 months old. Oh, and the pandemic. I have done something I don't normally do. I took time off from work. *Gasp* I have taken a month to be on paternity leave with Calvin while my wife returns to work, albeit from home. (see pandemic.)  So I will attempt to use the next 3 weeks to blog my experience of being a stay at home dad and some theological musings around that.  Oh, and if you haven't guessed, our son is named after that reformer, and a certain cartoon.