I found this video a few days ago and thought it fitting to share on Valentine’s Day: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4OK9DmLpCY&w=560&h=315] I blogged on marriage a few months ago and posted a sermon I did on the difficulties of marriage as Jen and I shared difficulties in our own marriage in a Sunday morning sermon. I think […]
An Ode to My Dead Civic
I’m not exactly sure what an ode is. My Mac’s dashboard dictionary tells me an ode is a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. • historical – a poem meant to be sung. So while I’m […]
Being a Dad = Science Fiction
Well I became a dad on Monday, November 21st, at 4:12pm with the birth of our beautiful daughter Lexi Hope Filipiak, weighing in at 9lb 7oz, 22″. The thing about being a dad that is the most eye-opening for me is trying to wrap my head around the concept that this human life came from […]
Marriage is Hard
Our culture loves to obsess over weddings, but is rampant with affairs and divorces. I’m not writing this to judge those who have gone through a divorce, but it is an undeniable reality that the majority of marriages start out with the bang of an elaborate ceremony but end up sputtering out before the vows […]
The Elephant in the Church Room: Homosexuality
I preached on homosexuality and the Church yesterday. This is a tough topic that is very polarizing. I think my biggest problem with the Church’s traditional approach to it is that it has offered a 2 cent answer and has failed to comprehend that this is a million dollar question. I think the reason we […]
Talking About Sex and Pornography in Church
Why don’t churches talk about sex and pornography more? Whether you’re married or single, in adolescence or adulthood, sex and what to do about it bombards your reality, yet the Church, which should be the place ushering us into the true reality of Jesus’ Kingdom, is often strangely silent on this topic (yet Jesus wasn’t…). […]