Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

I preached this past Sunday here at home. It was on Acts 8:26-40 on Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch – the link is for my friends who are still wondering what that means. I don’t manuscript – so you can download and listen online. But hurry, because it’ll be gone in like 6 weeks.
I don’t [...]

On my train

If there’s a train from here to heaven, I really think that we may have to share the car with other Christians that we struggle the most to love. If you read this blog, my opionatedness tends to get the better of me and my train car will be full – of people who [...]

Convergence

I have been aware of what Robert weber has been doing with the Chicago Call and the new Ancient Evangelical Future Call for quite some time now. I even volunteered some input into the process. Now, there is this article in CT magazine that has an interesting note at the end:

The call says some harsh [...]

For future reference…

Amazingly many people look at me weird when I tell them that our high school summer missions trip was to a corner in Pasedena called ‘blood corner’ and to a church on Ward Street in Compton, which happens to be one of the worst for gang violence.
To my surprise, people wonder why we went there. [...]

Watch Out!

The one thing that older leadership needs to know is that younger leadership isn’t even asking the same questions anymore. So older leadership’s answers aren’t cutting it.
That’s my quote – what questions are you asking?

High School Camp

I spent the last week at Mayfield camp – my first year not as a counsellor and got to be in the “leader” group. It’s been interesting watching the younger generation of youth pastors take the reigns as the olders move on to new things that the Lord is calling them to. Many changes to [...]

Dumb, but you know you like it

1. One book that changed your life: Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christian
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:The Poetical Works of Byron
4. One book that made you laugh:The Pulpit Commentary Volume 1 Genesis
5. One book that made you cry:Brennan Manning, [...]

You live, you learn, you stop being a moron

Last night about 10 I was driving back into town accross the bridge and the truck next to me had stickers on the back tail gate that said:
Nuke ‘Em AllLet Ala sort it out
So, to my new friend Mr.Dumb Redneck:
Learn to spell. Ala is a commune in Italy. Allah is the Islamic [...]

Sabbath Keeping, Lynne Baab

Sabbath is a popular buzzword right now in most evangelical circles, thanks in no small part, to the emerging conversation. Most people are reading another book called The Rest of God, but it wasn’t available in my book club when I needed to buy a few books to fulfill my obligation. Also, I wanted to [...]