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What is our goal? Whether we are talking about our Sunday service, our kinships, or really anything we do as a church, when we get to the question of, “what are we hoping to see happen out of this?” it always comes down to transformation. Will what we do, & how we do it, help [...]

This weekend I watched a TED talk by author Susan Cain. It was the title of her talk, The Power of Introverts, that caught my attention. Growing up I was the kid who loved being by myself. Let me pick between a crowd of people, and a good book or some baseball cards by myself, [...]

One of the hardest things for me in serving as the lead pastor of a church is (besides the fact that I’m not all that pastoral) is the preconceived notions people bring with them about what a pastor is, and how they are supposed to interact with them. Even once we’ve gotten a person to [...]

This Sunday James spoke about giving up our need for power and control.  He talked a bit about the spiritual discipline of submission. It reminded me of a post I’d done a while ago & thought I’d repost it here.   I was rereading the third chapter of Christianity Beyond Belief yesterday to prep for this Sunday’s [...]

About 20 years ago, I sat through a sermon in a church where, at least from what I can remember, the main thrust of the message was that men should not wear earrings. I’m thinking, there must have been more, but that is one of the two vivid memories I have of that morning. The other is of two teenager guys, one with an earring, chatting with the pastor after the service. I don’t remember the passage of scripture, or much else about that morning. But as I watched the pastor talk to those two guys that morning, I had what I can best describe as a “God moment.”

I am an introvert. One of the things that means is I do not like the telephone. Caller ID, with the ability to screen calls was the greatest invention since the wheel (not that I’ve ever screened your call). More than answering the phone, I don’t like making phone calls. Much of that goes to [...]

“I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall In the early 90s, Elizabeth and I went on a missions trip to the Philippines along with a number of other college/university ministry people from around New York State. [...]

I’ve been thinking about being comfortable lately. One of that issues that we deal with when we are in the midst of a transition is discomfort. When we move from a place where we understand how things work, and what our role is, we’d consider ourselves comfortable with our surroundings. When our situation changes, we [...]

Although I occasionally mention the Red Sox in my blog, I don’t think I’ve ever written a full post about the Sox. But over the past few days there have been a few things that jumped out at me & thought there were a few things to learn…

I don’t remember exactly where I heard it, but recently I was watching a video of John Wimber and he was talking about people becoming followers of Jesus. The paraphrase was basically, “I don’t know how people become Christians, I just know they do.” And he continued by saying, “All I know is, you talk [...]