I’m a native English speaker. I also speak a little bit of Spanglish.
Como se name? Me llamo is Ben. I gusto tacos. Donde esta el bathroom?
I’m also fluent in Christianese. Being a pastor’s kid, this was the first language that I learned. To this day, when I encounter a [...]

Blogging is good for a lot of things. One of them is that it’s a great venue for venting about various pet peeves one might have. Things like driving for miles with the turn signal on, driving without ever using the turn signal, big hair, theft-proof packaging used on everything at WalMart, etc. [...]

This is John Piper talking about the prosperity gospel so prevalent in the US. In light of the constant commenting on the Joel Osteen post I did a while back, I’m curious as to your thoughts on this.
Should we feel HATRED for the prosperity gospel?

Hat tip to Greg for pointing the way to this.
Technorati [...]

I’ve had several people ask me recently about the Emerging Church. It’s a question I get a lot.
I’m not an expert on the “movement”, but I’ve done a lot of reading about it because a lot of what they do intrigues me. It’s also very confusing since the labels seem to change all [...]

This isn’t particularly hot-off-the-press news in internet time, but it may be news to most of my readers.
Acts29 is the church planting network that was birthed out of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (Mark Driscoll). They are an interesting group. They are non-denominational in a true sense of the word. They do [...]