Something different today… As a pastor, I have to balance my life between efficiency and love. This is not easy, because these two concepts are nearly mutually exclusive. But that’s my reality. I have to cultivate efficiency because I’m a part of an organization, I lead a team of busy people, and we try to … Continue reading
In Luke 14, Jesus describes a great feast. 15 Hearing this, a man sitting at the table with Jesus exclaimed, “What a blessing it will be to attend a banquet in the Kingdom of God!” 16 Jesus replied with this story: “A man prepared a great feast and sent out many invitations. 17 When the banquet was ready, he … Continue reading
In the year 325 a bunch of Christian leaders gathered to decide some really critical theological issues. It was an amazing event, for a few reasons. First, this had essentially never happened before. These men (let’s be honest) had only perhaps HEARD of each other; they had never met, or looked in each other’s eyes. … Continue reading
Over the past few days, I started thinking about the essentials of the way I approach music. It’s probably not complete, and it’s probably not the last time I’ll do something like that, but here ya go… There is no such thing as “simple” music If you think that a genre of music is “easy” … Continue reading
“Why did he let me leave in the first place?” I wonder if the son who fled—we know him as the Prodigal—ever thought that? Though I know this story from Luke 15 is (a) a parable, and (b) more about the radical behavior of the Father than it is about the son, nevertheless I found … Continue reading
