(This repost is from January 28, 2009) It would be so much easier to follow Jesus if he called us. If I were at work one day and he walked by and said, “come on, follow me.” If I were doing what I’ve spent my life preparing to do and he said, “I’ll show you […]

I’ve got a lot in my brain as I write this. So let me give you several observations for Friday morning. Read the amazing comments on the post about Flipped Church. It almost feels like I flipped the post. Thank you for your interaction, all of you.  Some of you don’t see comments, so you […]

Over at Socialmediachaplain.com, I’ve been running the 7×7 project. 7 minutes a day, 7 days a week on listening to God. It’s about 5 minutes of reading and a couple minutes of asking God a question and then shutting up. We started on February 22. We finished the book of Mark yesterday. That’s a whole […]

My friend Sue Murphy introduced me to the idea of the “flipped classroom.” In short, rather than spending all the time in class lecturing, and all the time out of class trying to do homework based on the lectures, why not record the lecture for the students to watch at home and then use the […]

(This was first published October 29, 2009) Imagine a great restaurant. Wonderful food, fabulous service. Imagine walking up to the restaurant. Someone is in the entryway, the space between the sets of doors. “Wonderful,” you think, “There are greeters even here, just like Applebee’s.” You get to the door. They aren’t opening it. You reach […]