Since it starts tomorrow, I’ve been thinking about 2009 and what lies ahead for the Luminus Network.  I’ve been reflecting a bit on the purpose of Luminus and trying to figure out if we are headed toward our mission:
To be a network of young adults joining together to seek, know and represent the living God [...]

This was a sermon manuscript from a message I preached on Sunday, December 7, 2008 entitled, “Jesus & Empire”.  I submit it for conversational purposes.
I was looking through the papers recently and came across some sad, sad stories.  In one article a father was shot as he and another father fought over a Nintendo Wii [...]

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” ~C.S. Lewis, Miracles
“Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.” ~Max Ehrman, [...]

Introductory Remarks
In 1994, Dr. Gregory Boyd authored a book of letters.  These letters were from a father to a son; the son was Greg and the letters were written to his father, the late Edward Boyd.  Greg’s father, a professed atheist, was totally turned off to Christianity.  Abuses and bad experiences in his upbringing had [...]

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about a slew of different things. One of those things I have been pondering a lot is God’s plan for our lives. If you’re like me, it sometimes feels like there isn’t a plan. We get up, go to school/work, come home, eat, [...]

I am a member of the Brethren Church based in Ashland, Ohio.  My blog is affiliated with one of its churches, Park Street Brethren Church.  What follows is an excerpt from a work I presented on an overview of the Brethren take on theology, a review of Brethren sources of authority (views of God, Jesus [...]

Here lately, I have been looking at a lot of bad things happening around me.  Don’t get me wrong, a lot of good is happening too…I’m not trapped in some pessimistic worldview.  It made me reflect back on a post I had done for another blog.
Many around me are struggling and suffering right now.  Many [...]

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” -John 1:1
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” -John 4:23

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the [...]

This past week, something monumental happened in the life of my family.  While visiting family, I was allowed to sit at the adult’s table and move from the kids’ table during the Thanksgiving meal.
The kids’ table has been my Thanksgiving meal location for years.  My brother, cousins and I gather around this little folding table [...]