I’m Not Your Pastor…Yet.

I love being a pastor. I love the sense of God’s call on my life and the way I have been invited to respond to the call. Now as I prepare to join in God’s work among a people I do not yet know in a land I am only passingly familiar with, I find myself […]

#Spirituality (A Rethink Church Lenten Experiment)

Maybe it’s my inner control freak, but I don’t really like surprises. I prefer to have things figured out, to follow the rules, to know what’s next. Though I highly value creativity, I find it is from order that my creativity is most likely to emerge. So this week’s Rethink Church question was initially puzzling […]

Busted

If there is a consistent theme in my preaching and writing, it is relationships. GOD is Father, Son and Holy Spirit…relationship. The whole of Scripture comes down to “love God and love others”…relationship. So I am a bit embarrassed to relate the following story of how I did not do a good job of living […]