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The Jazz Theologian

April is Jazz Appreciation Month.  The Smithsonian National Institution of American History has led this effort and the United States Government has commended April as the month to celebrate Jazz–born in America, enjoyed worldwide. Here are some of the facts from the Smithsonian: What is Jazz Appreciation Month?The concept is simple: designate one month for…

FYI–this blog is now a dotcom…you can still use the old address or you can use the new one…www.jazztheologian.com…

As a friend of Pete Gall, I’ve always believed that he was born to write.  I’m glad his first book is on the shelves so you can see what I’ve known for years. It’ called My Beautiful Idol and you can read samples here… (Yours truly even has a cameo as Pastor Ellison) Philip Yancey…

Colorado Community Church:  Most weekends I have the privilege of sharing God’s word with the wonderful congregations at Colorado Community Church. Additionally… 2009 Jan. 12-16–Denver, CO–Denver Seminary D. Min. Seminar:  Pastoral Leadership in the 21st Century.  (Co-leader with Dr. Gordon Macdonald, Dr. Scott Wenig, Dr. Don Cousins) Feb. 10-13–San Diego, CA–National Pastors Convention March 30…

It will be forty years this April that Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated.  Dave Lemieux and the House of Soul in partnership with Colorado Community Church and the Center for African-American Health will be presenting At the Table. There are two shows next weekend and tickets are $12 dollars Friday April 4th @ CCC…

Well, I’ve finished the manuscript and it is in the hands of a very capable editor at  Zondervan .  I am grateful to my wife, friends, an incredible group of literary agents (Wolgemuth and Associates) for all of their prayer, help and support these last few years. The title is Finding the Groove:  Composing a…

"It’s the sea that makes the sailor, It’s the land that shapes the sea I don’t know where I am going or where I’ll some day be. It’s the wood that makes the carpenter, It’s the very tools of his trade. It’s love that makes the lover and the cross that makes a saint." Rich…

Lord, I wan’t to know you.  Robert Lewis once wrote “We could not make sense of the New Testament in particular, or Christianity in general, without its central figure—Jesus Christ.  Christianity is not a philosophy or an ethic, but a person:  Christianity is Christ.  But neither can we make sense of Christ himself without His…

When I survey the wondrous cross, I am horrified.  Tattered and torn skin…blood matted hair…pain induced quivers…the death of God.  A man so battered and betrayed that words…fail.  When I survey the wondrous cross, its beauty startles me.  The life…the love…the compassion…of the death of God.  It…no, He summons me to feast upon that which…

St. Patrick
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