You have almost zero reason to take my advice when choosing the music you listen to. My personal opinion is that I have a decent ear for hearing songs that I think others will enjoy and are musically solid. But of course, you would have to take my word for it. Last week Jars of…
The Comfortable Church
This post has been inspired through 3 separate things: Daniel wrote a comment on my post about seminary from last week that made me think. He said, “I thought all believers were called into ‘ministry’….Where does this idea that certain followers of Christ are called into a deeper level of ministry come from? In scripture…
My Problem with the Missional Church
My problem with the missional church is that it is attractional. For this post you can think of the missional church as the same as the emerging church. The difference is mostly just semantics. For the past few years it has been a common discussion to look at the expressions of the missional church and…
3 Reasons People Don't Sing
Today I led worship at New Harvest Church in Salem, Oregon. It is a church full of people I grew up with and the first church where I consistently led worship for the adult services on Sunday morning. You could say I cut my teeth at New Harvest. It was great to be back and…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Rose and I are headed to Salem this weekend to see my family and lead worship at New Harvest (my dad is a pastor there). It will be our first weekend away from Sunset in 4 months…weird. My dad and I will be renewing our golf rivalry at 2pm PST. It usually isn’t much of…
Crossing the Line
It is a common thing for a church to become known primarily for their senior pastor. It is a common thing for a church to grow with a pastor and then dwindle when he retires. I’ve noticed one thing about today’s Christian culture: they love pastors. I can name 15 or 20 pastors that have…