Salt and Light
Last week, I talked briefly about the root of the word, politics… how it refers to the city or the citizen… and how at its…
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Prodigal Rabbi
A couple of weeks ago, Trevor and I were at a workshop about how we change our thinking in the church from membership to discipleship….
Praying on an airplane
Friday I took an early morning flight home. I had been in Nashville for a few days to train some new field coordinators for Imagine…
Spirit of Discipleship
How many of you understand the Holy Spirit? How she works, where she blows, what exactly God is doing in our lives through the Spirit’s…
fasting in secret, doing justice in the daylight
Last night in Disciple Bible Study, we very timely read the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew. As a class, we wrestled with the implications…
Ezra and Nehemiah… rewriting history
In my local emergent cohort, we have been reading Phyllis Tickle’s Prayer Is a Place: America’s Religious Landscape Observed. As this book has been in…
Are Ye Able?
I have just two simple questions for us to wrestle with this morning… First – what do you want? And second – are you willing…
levels and dimensions
Last month at our county ministerial alliance gathering, we got to chatting about the books we were reading. One pastor mentioned a book – and…