“I’ll e-mail it to you when I get home.” Thus has much important data been lost in congregations all over the world. Most congregations, for better or for worse, are volunteer organizations. This means that, for better or worse, most of the people doing the work of the congregation have a life away from it….
Category: Pastoring
Healthy Introspection
I’m preaching on 1 Corinthians 15 this Sunday, and as I worked on the text this week I came to appreciate something about the Apostle Paul. To be honest, I had seen it before, but as I looked at the text for my sermon I was enabled to pause and see it as one if…
I, Apparently, Suck
This is another Google Video blast from the past in which my friend Ron tells me why I’m a failure. Thanks Ron!
A Blast From The Past
Google Video is shutting down, so I’m uploading to You Tube some of the videos I had hosted there. This video was created in 2006 for an devotional movement we were doing at Central. The character, Darth Nohope, was constructed to give the congregation a third-party villain as we leapt into a new narrative, It…
The Traditional Response
Holy Week is soon upon us, and with it will come the cacophony of voices crying, “It’s only a tradition!” This is, ironically, the tradition response if the non-traditional Christian the the idea of Holy Week. It used to bother me, as most if the Evangelical circles I walked in mocked the idea of a…
The Officeless Office
Imagine a scenario unfolding as you watch. In many ways, it’s familiar. A church receives a phone-call which is fielded by the secretary, the secretary determines that the call is relevant for the pastor and asks if he or she is free to take the call, after determining that the pastor is able to take…
