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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 [...]

As we enter 2010 my mind is just buzzing with ministry ideas, hopes, dreams, and expectations. I have this sense in me that God wants to do some great things in the coming year. This [...]