On the back wall of the stage in my church’s main sanctuary we have a cross. Now and then we cover it up to put up some type of design so the stage and sanctuary has a different look and feel. Most often we then put out another cross somewhere on the stage, but now [...]

About a month ago Time magazine did the unthinkable and named a 26 year old man their person of the year. They also kind of dated themselves because he probably deserved the award 3 years ago, but it was a gutsy move nonetheless. Mark Zuckerburg, founder and CEO of Facebook was Time magazine’s 2010 person [...]

This semester I took my first preaching course in seminary. Taking the course was a big step for me, in a weird way. I’m in front of people all the time. Sometimes leading smaller groups, other times leading thousands. But the thought of getting up and speaking for a long period of time is so [...]

To some of you this might read a bit like a rant. During this season of life at my church the senior pastor has been put on administrative leave while a team from our denomination can make some decisions as a 3rd party. This has left a major hole in our teaching schedule, because the [...]

Rose and I went to a Twins/Mariners game a couple months back. It was the first professional baseball game she had ever been too. In the middle of the 7th inning everyone stood up and started singing along to a song she had never heard in her life. It was quite humorous seeing how confused [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time this summer processing the concepts of management and leadership and how they are often assumed to be the same thing, yet I’ve learned them to be two extremely different things. Last week at Catalyst Andy Stanley said: Managers manage to sameness, leaders lead to change. One of my favorite [...]