As I sat today in a Starbucks with a Venti, Cinnamon, White-Chocolate, Mocha, in hand - reading a book about the Hebrew Prophets, I felt a pull to use technology to start a conversation.
I was planning my sermon for Sunday morning. As I sat and read about Isaiah and all the points of view about the scholarship of it, I was challenged. I was challenged about a million different things. My brain was moving at rates of speed that I've only seen displayed in Star Wars!
I'm a huge advocate of looking at Christianity today and asking, "What does it mean to be Christian in today's culture and philosophy?" "What does it look like to be Christian?" Coming from a holiness church tradition and believing in the message of holiness, "What does it mean to be holy today?"
So here I am...sitting and inviting others to join in the conversation. I know that there are probably many blogs like this other places. But I figure why not! Here's the first post!
I'm going to write below a series of questions that came to me today! Some of them may sound weird and may not make total sense. But I did my best at trying to get the questions in my head out in verbal or written form! Here goes...

1. What does it mean for God to be "Sovereign" within a Wesleyan context?
2. How do we talk about God's sovereignty in terms of theodicy?
3. How do we talk it from the pulpit in today's culture and philosophy?
4. Why is there a seeming absence of men in church?
5. How do we appeal to that part of maleness that are characteristic of God (wild, adventurous, bold, "warrior-like") in a way that is theologically and scripturally consistent, while NOT perpetuating the patriarchal, male-dominant Christian stereotype?
6. How do we teach love, mercy, compassion and grace along side adventure, wild, and warrior?

There you go! I look forward to talking about these!