Its Tuesday Evening, October 23, I’m doing some site maintenance in my sidebar. Things might be wacky for a little bit.
Update: Okay, I’m all done as you can tell (I hope).  I didn’t do much but I moved my design portfolio to my new design website and added a link to that site and [...]
I just launched my new web design site. My new company is called 343design. You can visit the site here and learn why I chose that name here. Of course, you can contact me here if you are interested in or need a website.
Being crazy busy this week I don’t have a ton of time to write out some of the things I’ve been thinking (topics like, “the practice of taking offering in the missional church” and “why taking days off is awesome” and other fun thoughts).
But, in the meantime, I am hoping to get some reaction from [...]
My wife and I are headed to the Chicago Bears / Philadelphia Eagles game today. You won’t see us unless the camera pans to section 123, row 33, seats 3 and 4. This will be my first Bears game ever. I’m kinda excited.
Though, I am not dumb enough to wear my [...]
My friend Tim from The Well has been doing some reflecting on his experiences of recently serving the homeless down in the city. Anna from our church leads a group of people down the Love Park area each Monday night. I went down a few weeks ago and look forward to going again.
I [...]
My good friend Scott Hackman is part of a small coffee roasting company called “One Village Coffee.” It’s the best coffee I have tasted. Ever. I even took the coffee into my local Starbucks where I usually study and the manager there (who is a coffee freak) confessed that this was “damn [...]
Dear blog readers,
I wanted to officially invite you to a conference that I go to every year with Joe Myers (author of Search to Belong and Organic Community).
Now, I’ve been to conference after conference in my young pastoral career. Many of them have been stimulating. But it seems like I am hearing the [...]
My soul finds rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock ad my salvation;
He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
How long will you assault a man?
Would yo throw him down -
this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
They fully intend to topple him from this lofty place;
they take delight in [...]
In my last post I brought up an ad from a church that was looking to cancel their church service and become a church of small groups. Now, honestly, this kind of thing just doesn’t sit right with me. I also asked a few questions and was very happy to see some of [...]
So, just curious, what do you think of the follow statement that I pulled off of a church website (which will remain nameless)
“Loving God, Loving Others, and Serving. We believe that true spiritual growth happens in small groups of people. That’s the way Jesus taught his disciples, that’s the way the early church [...]
I am continually trying to work out how to live faithfully as a follower of Jesus in suburban America. I am also continually asking what it looks like to lead a church community in this same context. Browse all my blog posts about this here.
Will Samson, a fellow blogger, friend and author who cares about the suburbs linked to an article by Chris Smith. Chris put together 10 ideas for living missionally in the burbs. I like em. I am drowning in work at the moment. If i had more time, i would add [...]
Sorry its blurry, but come on, is that hair not amazing?
Click on the picture to enlarge it…
We’ve been totally loving being parents of two kids. People keep on asking me if I am now really tired. Well, I am, but its not because the kids are keeping me up. Mason is basically sleeping through [...]
Eugene Peterson writes in his book Under the Predictable Plant,
“The congregation is not the enemy. Pastoral work is not adversarial. These people in the pews are not aliens to be conquered - defeated and then rehabilitated to the satisfaction of the pastoral ego. Thomas Merton wrote, “it is both dangerous and [...]