It seems like the annual tradition of Christian snarkiness gets earlier every year. Â First it starts with e-mails which follow the general theme of, “Make sure you say ‘Merry Christmas’ this year and let people know the real reason for the season!” I usually get upwards of ten of these e-mails, eventually I’ll get a…
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If I could plant a church
I’m a small church pastor. In a lot of ways I like being a small church pastor. After all, the smaller environment allows me a lot more freedom to experiment and see what catches on. Larger congregations tend to be more corporate minded. I don’t do well in an environment which brings cubicles to mind….
From the Garden to the City: Imagination
Note: If you’re interested in checking out From the Garden to the City before you buy the book – you can help unlock chapters by clicking here. When the assignments came out for this blog tour I have to confess that I saw my name next to “imagination” and did a little jig. As you…
Blog Tour: From the Garden to the City
Note: If you want to follow along with the Blog Tour for this book, follow this link to the ChurchM.ag site. Several years ago I attended presented at BibleTech 2011 and sat in on a session led by John Dyer. I was immediately impressed. John highlighted things that I wanted to briefly touch on during…
Church of intensely laid-back whacky disciples
As last night’s deacons meeting our community garden was brought up. It’s produced a yield that we couldn’t have possible imagined, which has lead to the garden getting a tad over-run. It was brought up that the garden has been awesome, but we needed to lay out a plan to really put the “community” in…
A funny thing happened on the way to the offering
I love technology, and implementing technology wisely in worship. That being said, one of the points I always raise with pastors and lay-people who are interested in integrating technology into worship (usually through digital projection) is that it will fail – and they needed to be prepared for the contingency. Well, this past Sunday we…
