Holiness Reeducation

How has the American culture’s obsession with celebrity infiltrated the church? What temptations do we as pastor’s face in regards to being a celebrity. In Mike Breen’s new book, Multiplying Missional Leaders he offers this insight into celebrity and the North American church.         However, the problem with celebrity comes when we [...]

For months now I have been wrestling with some ideas in Doug Pagitt’s book Preaching in the Inventive Age. (I blogged about this a little bit before) There is no act of worship that I am more passionate about or spend more of my life thinking about than preaching. It is at the center of [...]

Do you recruit volunteers or do you help to shape and grow leaders? The answer to that question will give you huge insight into your church and your ability to effectively disciple others and carry out the mission of God. Mike Breen’s new book is called Multiplying Missional Leaders. I just grabbed an e-copy and [...]

Last week I offered some thoughts on the the Same Sex Marriage debate from the perspective of how the church can better represent Christ in regards to this debate. But I certainly didn’t cover another very important side of the debate. A good friend pointed this out to m in an email. Here is part [...]

This morning I was talking with a guy at a coffee shop about churches. He made a very astute observation talking about a couple of churches he had visited and comparing them. He said, “Church A seemed to be involved in every aspect of their community. Everything they did was geared towards those outside their [...]

Yesterday we started a new series at DCC called I am Duneland Community Church. We are preaching through our values as  a church so that we can understand better what it means to be the church not just go to church. As part of that series we are having a video testimony each week reflecting [...]

As evidenced by my post last week about paper cuts, I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the quirks of life as a pastor. I don’t want anyone to think that I am feeling down about my job and calling. It is quite the contrary. I have never been more passionate [...]

I have often described pastoring as the slow process of dying the death of a thousand paper cuts. (This idea is not original to me, but I can’t remember where I heard it first. I am thinking maybe it was Rob Bell) Being a pastor requires you to handle quite a bit of conflict and [...]

What does the culture and church in Europe have to teach us about the North American church? That is one of the primary questions that I went into our European expedition asking. It is a question I have been pondering for some time. When we began to talk to people about this trip, I kept [...]

Wow April has come in with a bang. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week and the start of a ridiculously busy April in my life. From Holy Week to Easter to coaching 7-10 year old girls fast pitch softball to trying to buy a building to working on budgets to District Assembly [...]