Holiness Reeducation

On Monday I am heading off to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy with a group of pastors from my district. We are going because we want to vacation in Europe without our families on a visioning trip to prayerfully consider how to partner churches here in NW Indiana with churches in these countries. Our district [...]

I couldn’t be more excited about what my dear friend Dave Terpstra and the wonderful people Kimba Langas is leading at Free the Girls are doing. CNN did a story on them that appeared this week on their efforts to fight human trafficking. Having been friends with Dave for a long time it has been [...]

With the grounding of the Space Shuttle program run out of Cape Canaveral, Florida NASA now finds itself with a number of facilities that it can no longer use. It has launch pads, giant shuttle movers, huge warehouses where assembly took place, and one of the longest runways in the world, all essentially with a [...]

What is your capacity for leadership? That is the question I have been asking myself for the past week as I have reflected on some of the teachings of Mike Breen I heard in Atlanta. Mike challenged us as leaders to evaluate the leaders we invest into not through their competency but according to their [...]

A Bunch of Disconnected Thoughts from the Super Bowl and my life on this fine Monday morning. Two moments on Saturday afternoon brought me great joy as a father. First, my son sat with me on the couch and watched an entire Maryland basketball game with me. I could tell it was a moment of [...]

As often happens in my life, I have a collection of books I am currently reading or preparing to read. Looking at Kindle I realized that I now have ten in the hopper that need to be consumed and digested before adding anything else to the menu. Here are the books I am reading and [...]

Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be kickers. Whenever a field goal kicker misses my mother in-law feels bad, not for him, but for his mom. Watching your kid carry that kind of burden is tough. Well after yesterday’s games, Lawrence Tyne’s mom is relieved and Billy Cundiff’s mom is thankful her son [...]

How in the world does a ship the size of a floating city ending up capsized just off shore? Frankly I am glad that I am not the one who has to answer that question. The captain of the Costa will have to answer that question and the results are going to change his life [...]

Sunday we started our new worship series at DCC focusing on what it means to be made whole by God. For the first couple of weeks we are looking at the idea of spiritual balance as a route to wholeness. The most important part of that balance being intimacy with God. I especially talked about [...]

Happy New Year! We are going to kick the new year of properly with a look ahead to 2012, a look back on 2011 and the top ten posts of the past year. Let’s do it…. A 2012 Focus Every year I come up with a theme for the year. This past year my theme [...]