You’ll either thank me for this, or be deeply concerned that I’ve lept off the cliff of cynicism. I’ve got more than a few friends with a playful sense of humor. A couple of those just uploaded a new website,The Church You Know. It is anchored by some creatively crazy videos that poke fun at [...]

If people know me or hang around me much, they’ll know how passionate I am to mine the truth of Scriptures and to live in its instructions as the revelation of God in human history. I embrace with gratefulness the objectivity it brings to our growing relationship with him and accept it fully as the [...]

I just returned from a quick trip through the Central Valley of California where I met with six different groups of folks in four days from the Fresno area to Sacramento and back. What a trip! While I was away someone sent me

The September 2006 issue of BodyLife has just been posted at the Lifestream website. The lead article is called The Language of Community and is an anthology of some of the significant quotes from So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore. Do you know those little discoveries that the Spirit allows you to [...]

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been asked on more than one occasion, what they should do in a situation where they have been asked to teach a class at a congregation they attend, when they know the things they want to share would be at odds with those who are asking them to [...]

A few blogs back, I posted a parody of a salvation tract that was sent to me by a friend. It was a bit over the top and I even commented that I knew people who lived it this way, but I doubt they would ever spell it out so clearly. Then I got this [...]

You’ll thank me for this… I have just received a copy of a new book titled When the Church Leaves the Building, written by a friend of mine, David Fredrickson from Sacramento, CA. Some of you have heard me talk of this congregation in Sacramento that over a number of years followed the Lord’s leading [...]