Blog Posts

  • Invest in a Poet and Support the Free Market at the Same time: A Review of the poetry of Enoch Warnke (and the longest blog post title ever)

    How many published poets do I personally know? It turns out one. Which is a larger number than I would have thought until I discovered that my old pal, my chum, my bro Enoch writes poetry and has published his first collection, Sweet Death I Feel Most Sharply When I feel Nothing At All, and…

  • Refocus: A Fresh 2020 Vision for the Church

    What the New Testament describes as a church is often very different from the concept of a church that we have today. I think one confusion that has existed for a long time is that church is a place that you go to. People think of a church as a building. But the New Testament…

  • Smoked Brisket and Roasted Summer Vegetable Soup

    It’s Labor Day, so we should all act like Americans and smoke a brisket, am I right? Well, this is my first brisket (or firsket, for short) and it was stunningly delicious. But first, the soup. Yellow Tomato Soup We are not canning or otherwise preserving any of our garden vegetables this year so I’ve…

  • Choose Your Stick: On Critics of the Church

    It has been said that any stick is good enough to hit the church with, and I believe it. If critics are a dime a dozen, then critics of the church are a dime a baker’s dozen. If your church patiently disciples a couple through a difficult marriage, someone who witnesses a less than cordial…

  • God’s Grace to Noah

    Sermon Text: Genesis 6-9 Foundation #4 – God will not allow the corruption of the wicked to overflow His plan of redemption. In 1953, Martians invaded planet earth and wiped out a large portion of the population. In 1959, a nuclear war wipes out the majority of mankind leaving only a few, who are soon…