The first way I’m trying to respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail is to celebrate progress. So much ground has been gained, yet we cannot stop at that...
In the spring of 1963 eight white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote an open letter with a thinly veiled reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an “outsider”...
It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This is a short series on “Five Ways to Respond to...
The temple? Destroyed. Jerusalem? Burned. The people were carted off captive, “scattered… with a whirlwind among all the nations” (Zech 7v14). They returned years later with a lingering, bitter...
Once upon a time there was a nation which ascended in power and wealth to the point that it was the envy of all the nations of the world....
Lately I’ve been reviewing the somewhat interesting journey of the launch of Friday Night Live which I’m calling “The Sleeper Sensitive Church.” [box type=”note_box” style=”” class=””]If you’re catching up,...
For the last few weeks I’ve been talking on Tuesdays about the launch of a new way of doing church back in the early 90s. (So, an old story...
The next stop in my faith journey involved diving deep into a new ministry start. As I journaled last week–we had done a survey on Sunday mornings of all...
Continuing where I left off… I was involved in a college student ministry that I loved. It seemed like the the perfect mix of community & worship, teaching &...
This is such a beautiful story that was just written by a colleague of mine named Kerry Kind about a church where God convinced them that the annoying semi...
