the loads of our fathers

Two different times I graduated school in Tennessee and moved to California. The first time was in 1997, when I graduated from Lee University and moved to San Francisco. I literally threw everything I owned in the back of my battle-tested Honda, grabbed a buddy for the road trip, and drove to California. We made [...]

on leadership

kingdom business

It was noted on Disc 1 that our approach to missions has to change. It was also noted that a more fundamentally important change that needs to occur is how we deal with money in general. It is ludicrous that we spend our money, at the very minimum, just as quickly as we collect it. [...]

primal church

I’m wrestling with desires I have to see certain primitive elements restored to our manifest expressions of being church. Let me make some qualifiers. First, I agree with Don Warrington that Evangelicals have often over-sentimentalized the ancient church. So, I am NOT talking about a literal restoration of the Book of Acts. However, I do [...]

colony collapse disorder

You’ve probably read about the bee crisis that has been emerging during the last two years as the apiary industry has systemitized the collection of data from apiaries across the country. Since then stories such as this one circulate through the news on a regular basis. Grants, research, and even whole new ‘departments’ are popping [...]

the sin bearer

When I lived in California I had the unique opportunity as a licensed minister of having my father as my Administrative Bishop. I am sure certain circumstances could have made this awkward. However, it was nothing but a positive experience for me. It also gave me the opportunity to learn from my father’s example certain [...]

children everywhere

As a child my favorite book was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The little boy in the book, Max, stages a small rebellion against his mother when he’s dressed up in his wolf suit. So, she sends him to bed without anything to eat. A jungle grows in his room and he [...]

we are not alone

As stated in the previous post, the church must move away from itself, it must move outside the camp. This has an extra implication for the USAmerican church. We have had a tendency to view things from a very American-centered perspective. We think of the world in the terms of this image.
We must begin to [...]