GUEST POST by TIM SMITH (Bio below) Steve DeNeff and David Drury begin their book this way: “More than half a million people have heart-bypass surgery in America every...
In reading Ephesians 3 I’ve always been struck by this phrase: [quote_box author=”” profession=””]”I pray that you may have the power to grasp how wide and long and high...
Let me get back to some of my faith journey–for those who are still tracking with my randomness. If you recall, on Tuesdays I’m posting notes about the odd...
Some have asked, through the years, as to why I’m a Wesleyan. I’m a Christian before (and after, and whilst) I’m a Wesleyan. But I choose to be Wesleyan...
If you haven’t seen it yet–this is one VERY incisive and humorous piece of satire about the way we use smart-phones and social media to fill the void of...
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...
When I was in college I started to move beyond a mere distaste for Worship Services, I actually started to feel like they were designing services in order to...
In my ongoing series about my personal faith journey, last week I picked on ultra-conservative youth camps that I worked at back in college. However, being an equal-opportunity offender...
After my short foray into youth ministry I had the opportunity to travel around the country representing my university. This sounded extremely glamourous to me, since I was only...
I was a horrible youth pastor. I found myself in college studying for the ministry. This was despite the fact that my faith was quite feeble–and my interest in...
I’m excited to announce that the publishers are planning to release a SoulShift Family Ministry Kit that will include student component in December 2012. As we travelled this past year talking...
Last week, I talked about how church felt irrelevant to me as a High Schooler. I mentioned in passing that as a young person I started to think that if...