It’s Tuesday morning and I am sitting in a hotel in Edmund, OK. We are in the midst of a tour of Christian colleges. Here is a recap of our trip so far:
Saturday afternoon we headed out from Rochester. We ended up in Chicago and celebrated Easter at Willow Creek’s main campus. It was an [...]

Thank you to everyone who was a part of Illuminate weekend!! I felt like it was a great weekend and so many people were a part of it. To the adults who helped plan and coordinate, thanks! To the teenagers who were a part of worship, Ignite sessions, and the rest of the weekend, thanks! [...]

Last weekend was our second annual Illuminate conference. This is a conference for teenagers, parents, and youth workers that we host at the Rochester Church. Here is a recap…
Friday during the day was filled with last minute preparations. Take 2 performed at assembly at Rochester College. David Fraze and Salient arrived. The final adjustments were [...]

Here is another paper from my grad class. This one addresses John Hick’s article on his "Soul-making Theodicy."
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John Hick’s theodicy emerges from his inability to realize the compatibility of the concept of God as both limitlessly powerful and limitlessly good and loving and the problem of evil. In his proposal, Hick provides an approach to [...]

After a "mess" last week, David Archuleta came back strong this week on American Idol. This kid can sing!

This is a paper for my grad class examining an article about "The Free Will Defense" by Alvin Plantinga.
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In his article, Alvin Plantinga sets out to address those who would argue that an omnipotent God and evil cannot coexist. He especially addresses Mackie’s paper, "Evil and Omnipotence." I found the first part of Plantinga’s essay challenging [...]

Well, in a little more than 48 hours, several hundred people will descend on the Rochester Church for Illuminate 2008 – "Lost." We have begun to transform the stage into an island for this weekend. The picture to the right was taken earlier today.
Please be in prayer for David Fraze, Take 2, Salient, Riley Armstrong, [...]

This past weekend, my dad, much of Ohio, and several surrounding states were buried by snow, blown around by winds, and generally miserable due to the weather. The photo above is from Progressive Field (the ballpark formerly known as "The Jake") in Cleveland, Ohio. This serves as another reminder of the winter that seems like [...]

This past Wednesday many of our teens were able to be a part of a special Connections upstairs with the adults. I had the privilege of interviewing four different students about how they saw God at work in their lives.
I interviewed Kalie about how she saw God at work as she learned she had diabetes. [...]

This week I had a close encounter of the worst kind. I got to "enjoy" an intestinal virus (not flu, as my wife reminded me) this week. It started on Tuesday night. I had been invited to go with a student to the Pistons game. (I need to write more about this experience soon.) But at [...]