I was studying for my message this week that I will be teaching out of Matthew 5:13-16. In this portion of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus describes his follows as salt and light. Both...

The whole premise of the book Deep Church is that the church will benefit from finding a middle ground between the traditional (which seems to be used to represent both liturgical and fundamental) and emerging...

This morning as I sit at Starbucks putting the finishing touches on my message for tonight, I am just absolutely struck by a God who seeks people like me. I hope that truth never grows...

This week I have the awesome opportunity to teach on the story of Zacchaeus… you know, “he was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he…” I’m confident that I will be...

Today I am reading The Wounded Healer for a Pastoral Counseling class that I am taking. Nouwen is always great – I have been deeply impacted by much of his writing. I came across a...

In Galatians 6:2, Paul writes, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” On the surface this seems like a great command in that it means that we...

Last month I finished up a teaching series on 2 Corinthians. I absolutely loved teaching through this book. One of the last passages that I taught on was 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, which reads, “7To keep...

Every year Barna and his group come up with some current trends in Christianity. I’m not sure how they get these, and I am always skeptical of things like this anyway, but I thought I...