What Questions To Ask Potential Pastors

I was asked by a friend of mine to put some questions together for her father’s church – which is just getting to the point of interviewing potential candidates. Below are the questions I submitted, along with my thoughts as to why they should ask them. What questions would you add to the list? Name…

Just Playing Around

Sometimes I wonder if I don’t listen to more music is because it gets my mind wondering about too many new ideas.  Today I was walking home through the Sanctuary while listening to my iPod and thought, “Wow, I wonder how that would look on DV?  Oh, and I’ve been meaning to play with some…

Written Up

Thanks to the dilligent work of Larry, one of Central’s members (and Blue Claws Member), Central Baptist Church was featured in the “Neighbors” section of the Philadelphia Inquirer this past Sunday.  I mention this not because I’m happy to have the free publicity for the Church (though it’s kinda nice, I have to say) –…

Kingdom Collision is put together…

I started putting together my sermons for the coming year this past week.  It’s a helpful discipline to me and I both look forward to it, and loath doing it, every year.  It’s fun to see everything laid out – but oh the mental errors I make doing it! As I put together the readings…

New “Brain”

I’ve been looking for the right moment to upgrade my aging iPaq to be my “brain” (appointment calendar, contacts, etc).  I didn’t want to get another windows PDA, and even though palm has some nice smartphones out at the moment I didn’t want to be hampered by an aging OS.  A smartphone seemed to be…

Failing Christianity

We discussed this article over on theophiles a while ago – but it just popped up in my blog reader again and, given my recent experience teaching an adult Sunday School class, I figured it was worth commenting on over here.  Here’s the paragraph which, sadly, mirrors my own experience: The only place the course…