Still Learning from Apple

As I was tracking the Apple tech conference yesterday – yes, I’m just that much of an Apple fan/geek – and noticed I was increasingly nonplussed – we all new about the bigger iPhone and had heard for months about the coming Apple Watch – I began to wonder just how longer we’ll care about Apple’s announcements. Perhaps, I thought, Apple’s day in the sun is over and we’re becoming as jaded to their innovations – okay, so they don’t really innovate as much as they take existing platforms to a higher and more beautiful level – as we are to innovations and evolutions in other industries. But then I found myself thinking...

The TED Commandments

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am a huge fan of the TED Conferences and the resulting Talks they produce. Despite recent critiques of being, for instance, too focused on inspiration or too prone to oversimplifying complex ideas, I still find them remarkably informative,...

What is Preaching? Jan16

What is Preaching?

I want to ask you a question. It might sound like a slightly odd question, but it’s nevertheless genuine. So here it is: “What is preaching?” The reason it might sound odd is that, well, I teaching preaching, and you’d think I’d know what it is I’m teaching. But in recent years...

Philippians 4:2-3

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life. We are at...