Nolesrock's Blog

The second idea that I’ve been deconstructing over the last year is my concept of who God is. Who is I AM? Could He possibly be contained in...

Well, it’s a new year and time to reflect on the year that just ended. I don’t want this to be a cheesy year in review, so I’ll spare you th...

(Disclaimer: Pay no attention to my last two posts on grace and humility…you’ll find little in this one.) Okay, I know it’s the week before ...

I mentioned in my last post about the new book I just started, If God is Love by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland (see jpeg in righthand...

Okay, I ripped that title from the subtitle of a new book I started last night, If God Is Love . Good so far, but more on that in a later po...

It's a sleepless night in early December. I'm up--fully awake--at 11:00 PM contemplating the humanness of Jesus the Messiah. Okay, w...

My Thanksgiving holiday was spent mostly on the road. My parents and siblings live in Central Indiana, so I loaded up the family truckster a...

After my last post--and watching Steve Martin's The Jerk over the weekend--I've decided to compile a list of the movies that make m...

In looking at my blog, things have been way too serious lately. So I thought it was time to lighten the mood with a little Napoleon Dynamite...

I saw an interesting bumper sticker yesterday on the way to work. It read, "I am for the separation of Church & Hate." Now, I...

Recently, I've been pondering the Lazarus story and how his story is really our story. The way I see it, we've all been called out f...

After recently explaining to a pastor friend what I’ve been up to, he asked, “So where are you anchored in?” In church-speak he was basicall...

The Good Shepherd taught his flock, his students (talmidim), that their one identifying mark would be their love one for another (see John 1...

Fair Wages. Do your work well and get paid well. Do your work not-so-well; get paid not-so-well. We would typically call that a loss of wag...

WHOA ...33 days since my last post?!?! What is up with that?? Sorry to my half-dozen readers. I just finished reading Rob Bell's Velvet ...

My prayer journal and my blog are sitting untouched for several days. What have I been so busy doing? Well, for one, I've been building ...

I recently discovered The Hunger Site , where you can click daily to fight hunger. Really, it's that simple. You can click from any comp...

Well, it's not quite here, yet, but in less than 12 hours I get my hair cut! This week overdue appointment has me excited not just becau...

This topic came up this week in one of the books I’m reading, Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton, and on a website I was perusing, Follow the Rab...

In recent years there has been much attention paid to the Ten Commandments because of all the media hype around public displays of these ten...