This is the first in a series I’ll be doing of questions that some of you asked. If you would like to add your question, go here and do so. Today I’ll answer a question from Jan. She asked: So where do you think God is leading you Tyler? After seminary and all, do you [...]

I read an interesting post earlier this week by Tim Stevens about the way one church in Mississippi is organizing their weekend worship and music. Essentially they hire a different worship leader each weekend instead of paying one or two people to be the worship pastor (s). Here is how Tim explains their strategy: A [...]

I’ve said it plenty of times…social media has a lot of power and a lot of positives. I referred to some of the positives in this post a few months ago. With all the power for positives in social media, there is an equal and maybe greater power for negative influence. I saw a couple [...]

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about hierarchical leadership in the church and the need for the church to move toward a shared leadership model. Here are some things I’ve read that have stood out to me: “A leader who leverages power is illegitimate. A leader who relies only on authority [...]

I got up way too early yesterday so I could be sure to get my hands on the Droid that came out for Verizon. I’ve never had a phone that had apps or could check email or could use the internet. It is a really weird shift to be able to do all those things [...]

This will be the last post in this series you can catch out the other posts if you want: Part One // Part Two // Part Three A Theology. At this point it would be good to examine two different types of worship that James Torrance labels “Unitarian worship” and “Trinitarian worship.” At face value [...]