Archive for 2006/06


Getting It

I’m on vacation in the Pacific Northwest, but got this email yesterday. I said I wouldn’t write blogs while I’m gone, but I guess it’s OK to let others write them for me. I got this email yesterday and my prayer is that it would give hope to others who are still trying [...]

Transition: From Relgion to Relationship

I am blessed to be able to finally have a recording of the most important teaching I do around the world to help people sort out how to move from religious thinking about their life in God and learn to live relationally as he designed us to. Recently on a trip to Pennsylvania, [...]

Relishing the Freedom to Follow

The July 2006 issue of BodyLife has just been posted at the Lifestream website.
The lead article is called Reveling in the Freedom to Follow, and confronts the difference between observing Christianity and following Jesus as the most significant part of every day life. Jesus invited us to follow him and [...]

Sales or Service?

I’m a bit of a golf nut, so I’m excited about having some time to sit and watch the final round of the US Open today! Go Phil! Or, Padraig! Or, Monty! Or, Furyk! Should be lots of fun.
Reading an article on the open the other day, however, I saw [...]

Where To From Here?

I got this letter the day after the last one I put on my blog. This one is from a senior pastor as well and letters like his more than make up for letters like the previous one. When our religious institutions get in the way of a simple hunger to live deeply [...]

Pity Me? I’m Not Sure I Need It!

Yesterday I got to Pennsylvania and found this note in my inbox from a ‘Senior Pastor’ in North Carolina:
So tragic that heresy can look repectable (sic)* on the web. Your thots (sic) disagree with scripture, church history, the expression of the church on any continent of the world, and the thots (sic) [...]

I love this!

I got this in my inbox the other day, in response to a recent podcast. I LOVE the last sentence and shout a hearty AMEN to the proposal. Let us be such people!
I listened to the “Are You a Christian?” podcast today and loved it. I was especially touched by your [...]

The Dangers of GroupThink

In a comment on my blog about Christian Magazines, Eric left a comment thinking I’d been a bit rough on the industry and painted with too broad a brush. I thought his comments had some validity, so I want to try to clarify that previous blog here:
Eric, Thanks for writing. I [...]

French Anyone?

I received this today from a brother I’ve been corresponding with in Switzerland who is translating the Jake Colsen book, So You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore into French.
Hi Wayne,
I just want you to know that I finished translating Jake Colsen. It’s in the “2nd reading” process now, somebody is [...]

The Truth About Christian Magazines

I’ve had a lot of email in recent days about some comments I made to a reporter that recently ended up in the current issue of Charisma magazine. People seemed to think I must have been misquoted. When I finally saw the article I was relieved to know that the reporter basically got [...]