Every year our church has a community carnival. We spend money. We charge nothing. We have the big slidy things and free hotdogs and a dunk tank and games and facepainting and snow cones and popcorn. We don’t take names. We completely waste the opportunity to send followup information or accept donations or anything that […]

I’m talking to a guy about learning what I do on Sunday mornings. Not the teaching part. Not the talking with people part. Not the temperature part or the encouraging part. The tech part. One of the things that I do is handle tech questions: why aren’t the song slides showing up on the screen? […]

Last fall I talked about a story James Bryan Smith tells about Rich Mullins. He says that during one of his tours, Rich Mullins would spend the time before each concert with markers and a white board. He’d draw a map of the world and fill in as many countries as he could before the concert. When […]

We read yesterday that Paul was asking the people in Colossae to be devoted in prayer. His next two sentences give them a sample of praying. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I […]