Holiness Reeducation

Let’s start by talking about bras Back in December our church became the shipping site for Free the Girls. All the bra donations that are sent in to be used by the women in Mozambique (and soon to be other countries!) are shipped to our church. At first the boxes started showing up a couple […]

“The more I consider Christianity, the more I found that while it has established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.” – G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy) I ran across that quote the other day while wrestling my way through JR Woodward’s book Creating […]

In an age of #hashtags, category tags on posts and buzz words galore, it is really hard to know whether categories and tags have any meaning, Is this simply another spin off of the latest meme or does it have real meaning? Over the past three or four decades in the North American evangelical church […]

The Super Bowl may just be more American then the Fourth of July. It is at least, just as American as Independence Day. The good and bad of our country was on full display last night. The football game is only part of the spectacle and celebration of all things America that took place yesterday. […]

Do you remember the movie Mean Girls staring Lindsay Lohan (pre-rehab, endless court dates and lost touch with reality Lindsay)? In the movie Lohan moves to a new school and is befriended by a group of outsiders. They aren’t cool, they aren’t popular but they offer her real community. But then an evil group of […]

Several months ago I blogged about a documentary being produced about something called Fight Church. Through that post I got connected with another pastor who is actually pastoring a church called Fight Church that is unrelated to the film. Josh Boyd, the pastor, and I were able to meet up and have coffee a couple […]

The Pew Foundation this week released a new study that shows that now there are 33 Million Americans with no religious affiliation. This is almost one in 5 adults. This number is up substantially from earlier studies and shows no signs of getting smaller. What does this study tell us about our mission as the […]

Who do we pay to do ministry in the church and what ministry do we ask them to do? How does the money we spend reflect the mission we have? (This is a follow up post to my post on Monday) We are currently undergoing a staff transition here at Duneland Community Church. As a […]

There has been a lot of buzz within the evangelical church world over the past 5-8 years about being missional. Missional has become the new label of having your stuff together. Before missional the word may have been contemporary or relevant (or in some circles maybe emergent). Churches became contemporary or relevant by shifting methodology, […]

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 […]