You might remember my challenge to worship leaders that I posted a week ago. Go to most any church and a perception can become that worship=singing and clearly singing is not the only way to worship God. Worship pastors spend a lot of time speaking about worship being a lifestyle and then go on to [...]

Now that the Blazers are out of the playoffs I’m not near as interested in the playoffs until the Finals, which will be the Cavs and Lakers, and LeBron is going to win his first title. My certainty of it all kind of takes the excitement out of it. By the way…I’m never wrong about [...]

I just finished my 4th semester of seminary this afternoon. I probably have 6 more to go… But it always feels good to finish a semester and school year. Summer time!

Last Friday I shared a post on God’s Word for the local church from Revelation. Today I want to look at Revelation 18 and what we could call the demise of evil. I love the way Eugene Peterson sums up this part of the book, which focuses on the demise of evil’s focus on monetary [...]

It is a common idea that the millennial generation does not respect its elders or submit to authority. The Wall Street Journal ran an article on the “Facebook Generation” and it touched exactly on this point. They created list focused on today’s realities for how power and influence is gained and worked out. Here are [...]

John Ortberg recently wrote for the Out of Ur blog. He provided a few snapshots of how people are showing the loss of faith in America, and specifically the numbers that show Christianity dropping in numbers. Here are the examples he provided: The recently released American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) indicates that faith is going [...]