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…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Here in Portland we have pretty limited expectations for what “Spring” actually is. It was sunny earlier in the week for a few hours and the temperature was a whopping 55* and I started hearing people talk about spring. Pretty funny. This year I might be doing as poorly as I’ve ever done with my…
The Overwhelming Need to Share
As someone firmly entrenched in this world of social media, I constantly battle over the need or desire to share. Sharing of my life, my news, my opinion. (Trust me, the irony of writing a blog post sharing my opinion about opinion sharing is not lost on me) Often times I do feel an urge…
Culture Making
I just finished reading Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch. It was a book I really enjoyed. Andy comes at the conversation of how Christians should interact with culture from a more Biblical, artistic, and intellectual perspective than anything I’ve read before. Most books on this topic tend to use statistics and…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Yesterday Rose graduated after several years of studying at her massage school. Very proud of my wife! I’m starting to get excited to go to the Q Conference in Portland next month. I’m attending via a live video feed at a site near the actual conference with other seminary students. The list of speakers far…
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…