I’m in Ft. Worth attending a meeting of leaders from the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. We’re exploring ways for our two tribes to express some visible, meaningful signs of unity. My ticket to such a meeting is that I’m directing the 2006 Tulsa Workshop. We’re hoping that we can do something at the […]

After the assembly on Sunday, we took off for Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It was my first foray into a state that has supplied me with many sermon-worthy jokes. We found the Ozarks to be beautiful and Eureka Springs to be a nice place to go to get away for a day or two. I’m sure […]

Yesterday I posted some recent thoughts from Alan Roxburgh. Here is something he said twelve years ago. Via onehouse We need a movement of God’s people into neighborhoods, to live out and be the new future of Christ. It must be a movement that demonstrates how the people of God have a vision and the […]

Powerful words from Alan Roxburgh via PoMoMuSiNgS If we want to discern the emergent work of God, weve got to ask, Where are the most God-forsaken places today? Let me suggest to you, one of the most God-forsaken place for us, is the local congregation. Why? They dont get it. They dont understand any of […]

I had an interesting lunchtime conversation with a friend about “The DaVinci Code.” We were kicking around the idea of Jesus being married. Now I know that in the Bible there is no evidence that Jesus was married, but what if he was? What do we lose as followers of Christ if Jesus was married? […]

If becoming a part of our church places people in an environment that encourages them to live more frenetic lives than they were living before, then we are going about doing church the wrong way.

Watching my 18-month-old eat a drumstick is one of the most gratifying experiences I’ve had as a father in a long time. Never in the history of carnivores has a chicken leg been gnawed so meatless by so few teeth.

This Sunday I’m starting a new series of teachings from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. I’m calling it: Humanity 2.0. I’m also teaching a class on Ephesians on Wednesday nights. I’m just about ready to call Ephesians my favorite letter from Paul. It is a great summary of the gospel and its implications for individuals, […]

Well, I managed to talk about the woman of worth in Proverbs 31 yesterday and not get into too much trouble. I took the position that you can read the poem on multiple levels. On one level the poem is describing the ideal wife to the young man who is the target audience of Proverbs. […]

I’ve been in Malibu for the past few days at the Pepperdine Lectures. I’ve been coming here since 1997. When we were living in Washington state, this trip often meant the first exposure to sustained sunshine in months. Now that I’m coming from Tulsa, SoCal sunshine isn’t that big a deal, but there is still […]