Spend a while on the various social media networks that exist and it becomes quite obvious who is in social media to build up themselves. They only talk about their blog posts or they never talk with the people who are trying to talk with them or they are constantly asking for prayer without ever [...]

One interesting aspect of today’s culture of live steaming services on the web, podcasts, blogs, and tweets is that we essentially have access to almost any pastor and any church we choose. And our culture of the celebrity Christian pastor probably doesn’t help anything either. Despite the negative connotations I associate with this celebrity pastors [...]

We haven’t had an 80* day in Portland yet this year…until today. It is the latest time ever in recorded history that we’ve had our first 80* day this late in the calender year. Summer is almost here for us. Today was also the day I had marked on my calender that I would be [...]

I just finished reading Church Unique by Will Mancini a few days ago for a class I’m taking next week. The main concept of the book is that each church has a unique culture, vision, and movement but few churches are living out those things. My favorite part of the whole book was a quote [...]

Much has been made of Ted Haggard’s announcement last week that he would be starting a church. I’ll be honest I’ve gone back and forth in my head in whether I’m ok with this or whether I’m not. In the end, my opinion matters not. I find it interesting that many people would say Ted [...]

At the social media conference I was at over the weekend (MISE), Jesse Rice challenged me in a big way to be more intentional. My favorite quote from one of his talks was: Intentionality sets the stage for transformation. Here he was referring to Jesus’ earthly ministry, but I think implications for this show up [...]