A capitol police officer has died from injuries he sustained during the redneck revolt the other day. A police officer friend of mine was on social media cheering on the revolt. I haven’t heard from him since the officer had died. This must be a very confusing time for the folks who were convinced Trump… Read more »

I don’t mean to give folks the idea that I have issues being a christian. I have issues with most Christians, so I don’t like totally identifying with them all the time. This is something that I need to talk more about. Marcus Mumford has resisted the label of “christian” because of its baggage (someone… Read more »

This post is by Kim Teller. You can follow her on Twitter. If you are familiar with the movie Fight Club, staring Brad Pitt, you will remember that the one and only rule of “Fight Club” is that “you don’t talk about Fight Club”. So, no matter how bad your face looks from getting bashed… Read more »

This is a short devotion based on Matthew 15:1-9. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” The Pharisees’ beef with Jesus is technically a legal one: The elders have a tradition of hand-washing,… Read more »

“Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.”  Spiritual exertion won’t end suffering. Where did she go… Read more »

“Love your enemies.” Michael Horton recently tweeted this quote from Martin Luther: Melancthon and I drank beer while the Word did its work spreading through Germany. Luther knew that people would lose their shit when he publicly regarded himself as an aloof drunkard. There is something fascinating about men who are willing to shroud themselves… Read more »

It’s impossible to be free if you cannot be honest. And it’s impossible to be honest if you know you’re being watched by the theological elite, waiting for you to trip into something that could be labeled “overzealous” or — worse — “obnoxious.” Or — if you really want to grind the gears of the theological elite… Read more »

  I think the notion of unconditional grace (the only kind of grace) is extremely offensive, especially to those in power. “Power” and “love for sinners” are hard concepts to philosophically piece together. It’s why Jesus’ talk of the Kingdom of God was so revolutionary – a Kingdom ruled by the grace of a good shepherd, not… Read more »

  House of the Justified Sinners – a ragtag band of farmington-based grace-junkies of which I am a part – is hosting a series of lectures entitled “Don’t Panic: A Guide to Jesus for Sinners.” In the six-week series we hope to reorient the evangelical culture’s misunderstanding about Jesus’ mission on earth. We have some claims to make about his life,… Read more »