This week, I posted a video clip someone sent me from a TV interview I did 37 years ago. I appeared on the show about seven months before our move to Hawaii. I had more hair then (this was the 1980s)...
I’ve been reading about scientific revolutions. You know, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein and the rest. Each of the above triggered a revolution that created a new normal (a term I’ve come...
A friend is trying to move his congregation to multiplying microchurches. Excuse me, I should have said that he’s trying how to keep up with the Holy Spirit who is breathing on his efforts in ways...
I think you and I have a problem with Jesus and new wine. At least, I do. I’ve heard (and preached) dozens of sermons about the new wine of the Spirit, always ending in a call for revival. But a...
It was an intimidating moment. The pastor of a church three times the size of anything I ever led demanded that I “justify” the existence of a Microchurch since it would be too small to...
This is the unhappy story of unchurched Harry and Mary. Harry and Mary came into our lives as a useful metaphor for those we would seek to evangelize. Useful for a while, that is. The law of...
Inviting someone to church is not evangelism. Bringing them into a friendship with Christ is. The Bible describes our task as reconciling others to Christ. The suggestion is that of a broken...