This weekend is the end of the third quarter. This weekend, then, is a time to review the last 9 months, to check our goals or 3 words, to see if we are making progress. Here are a bunch of questions (first published here in July) to help in that review. But as you look at […]

On the other side of the hyperlink is someone that wants you to click. On the other side of the image is someone who wants you to see it as real, or to see the reality that it reveals. On the other side of the story is someone that wants you to believe that it […]

Some lessons from my process of learning a book of the Bible. By turning off the radio, I’m not listening to other people’s choices of what is important. For 40 minutes a day, I’m not at the mercy of a marketing strategy, a newsroom policy, or a fundraising program. By learning an extended section of […]

A month ago, a friend was talking about making disciples. He said that part of following Jesus was remembering what he said, and that one important way to remember was to memorize verses from the Bible. He challenged us to memorize one verse a week for the next twelve weeks. His challenge bugged me for […]

For those of you who may not know, I am an executive pastor. That means that on Sundays when I’m not teaching a class, I spend most of the morning conversing and troubleshooting and clarifying. Yesterday I was doing my usual running around our church building. The 10:15 gathering was starting. I heard the music […]