I'm starting a new series tonight at theWELL - and I'm really excited for it. It's on John 13-17, which has typically been referred to as the Farewell Discourse. John 13 begins with Jesus in [...]

I overheard a conversation at Panera this morning. I know, I shouldn't be eavesdropping, but they were taking about the after-life and it was really interesting to hear their theology of heaven. They talked about [...]

I read the book Simple Church this past week. It's one of the best 'practical church' books that I have read in a ling time. The whole premise of the book is that lass is [...]

Last week I was asked to come down to Bethel Seminary to give a short talk on some of the distinctives of leadership in the next generation. Here is the list that I came up [...]

I've had the privilege of teaching through the first few chapter of Ephesians over the past months. It has been one of the most formative series' for me personally that I have ever done. Studying [...]

It's hard to believe that it is the last day of 2010. There has been so much that has happened in the last 364 days; some of it has been hard and a lot of [...]

I'm sitting here at a Starbucks in Escondido, CA on December 5, 2010 working on putting the finishing touches on the message that I am going to give at theWELL tonight (the College Ministry that [...]

I love this quote by Dallas Willard. it came to my mind as I was preparing for teaching on Ephesians 3:1-13 this weekend. “The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff. [...]

I was reading the paper today and I came across an interesting article in the "local" section. The article was about a 100 year old Christian Science Church. When the church was first started there [...]

I ran across this quote as I was studying. Interesting idea. I'd love to know what you think. “As contrasted to our contemporary views of spiritual self-actualization, the final and ultimate goal in the process [...]