Think Like Jesus

what it means to be Christian

  • Week #4: Revolution by George Barna

    I selected this book on the recommendation of a friend… with less exciting results than my previous week’s entry, I’m afraid. This is not a reflection on my friend or his taste in books. Pollster George Barna has become somewhat famous for giving us the facts… just the facts. He has helped millions become more Read more

  • Week #3: Dinner With A Perfect Stranger by David Gregory

    Over the Christmas break I re-connected with a friend from college who I had lost track of. We were having coffee one morning and his wife called sobbing and said she had just read an unbelievably impacting book. I didn’t know his wife, so I assumed that was just her personality… the emotional type. Two Read more

  • Week #2: Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

    I like books that challenge norms. That says alot about me I know. Facts are facts. This book definitely challenges the conventions of Christianity. Donald Miller tells us his personal story of faith and his journey with God from childhood to the present. His honesty is refreshing and… well… honest. He says things that most Read more

  • Week #1: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

    I wanted to start the year by reminding myself what it’s all about to be a follower of Jesus. While Lewis is definitely not for the faint of heart, he’s not wordy either… the teacher in him never allows for a wasted word. The truth he expressed in 1952 stands as a poignant reminder of Read more

  • What I’m Reading: A Closer Look

    I made one of those New Year’s things… some call them resolutions. My resolve was to make a strong effort to read one book each week. One month in and I’ve made it so far. I was thinking it might help me to be faithful if I let others know what I was attempting… that Read more

  • Finding Ourselves On the Wrong End of the Spear

    Hollywood is beginning to understand that even though they may have some significant differences in morality, Christian culture is part of an equation that equals big bucks at the box office. I find it more than slightly amusing that Christians seem to be the only ones that haven’t figured out the other side of that Read more

  • Shed A Little Light

    Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King;And recognize that there are ties between us –All men and women living on the earth –Ties of hope and love – sister and brotherhood.That we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free Read more

  • Learning from Dwarfs

    My daughter gave me an innocuous little gift in my stocking this year. To the best of my knowledge there was no double meaning intended, but a much deeper meaning is precisely what I received. What was the gift? Two of the seven dwarfs… Happy & Grumpy. Maybe I just want desperately to believe that Read more

  • 2005 McQueary Family Christmas Letter

    Where to begin? This has certainly been a full year. In many ways I feel like I should wait until the end of a school year to do this… our lives seem to be (primarily because of ministry to students) inextricably linked to school years. But I’ll give it a go anywho. Without a doubt Read more

  • Unexpected Lessons from Strange Sources

    Who knew? Have you ever learned a lesson from an unexpected source? I’m in the middle of one of those lessons now. Our church (my employer) is in the middle of a building project. There is always something exciting about that process. This happens to be a major project for us. After many years of Read more

  • Sharpening the Saw

    Habit #7 in Steven Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says that… “the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life is investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.” The translation of that means that we are responsible for Read more

  • The Simple Life

    I am a complicated person. I doubt that anyone, certainly not my wife or anyone that knows me very well, would ever accuse me of being simple. I only wish I had a simple life. “The real path to greatness, it turns out, requires simplicity and diligence. It requires clarity, not instant illumination.” – Jim Read more