In today’s age of the internet, technology, and social media, everyone wants to share everything that is happening all the time. I touched on this subject a couple months ago, but I want to look at it in a different way today. Matthew 6:1 has a warning for us: Watch out! Don’t do your good…
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When a Church is Dying
Saw this quote a while back and really identify with the truth in it. People debate how to recognize when a church is dying all the time. Most people look at declining offerings, budgets, staff, or attendance, but I agree with this quote that a dying church is something far different than that. When the…
If You Could Be Led By One Pastor…
In today’s world of podcasts and blogs and church websites, we have the opportunity to sit under the teaching of just about any pastor we choose despite most of us calling another church our home. There’s good and bad to this I won’t get into right now. I am curious though… If you could sit…
When Outsiders Come To Church
This past weekend we had a few pagan bloggers come to my church (oh the horror!!!). They are the two writers that make up the new blog out of Portland titled Year of Sundays. Essentially they’re going to different churches around Portland every Sunday for the entire year. And they don’t hold back on any…
Out With the Old, In With the New
At Sunset (my church home) we have two separate morning services on Sunday that are not just at different times but also have distinct stylistic differences. Most people would just call one a “blended” service of traditional and somewhat contemporary items, while is the later time is a “contemporary” service. I use these labels more…
Ministry Isn’t For Pastors
One of my struggles of working at a church and also attending seminary is that many I interact with seem to think of church ministry as the height of faithfulness and ministry to God. Think of the phrase, “I’m going into the ministry,” and it’s common use in our culture today. Yet it comes across…